Competing Motivations as a Source of Inadequacies in the Clause Coding: an Analysis in the Light of Functional Discourse Grammar

Authors

  • Márcia Teixeira Nogueira Universidade Federal do Ceará
  • Francisco Ednardo Pinho dos Santos Universidade Federal do Ceará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v27i1p191-205

Keywords:

Competing Motivations, Inadequacies, Syntactic Functions, Semantic Functions, Functional Discourse Grammar.

Abstract

This work analyzes some factors why it can be considered that a sentence is inadequate concerning the interaction event in which it is used and in relation to the grammar of the specific language, according to a functionalist view of language as a flexible system when faced with usage pressure. Inadequate constructions are studied under the perspective of the assignment of pragmatic, semantic and syntactic functions, according to the conception of grammatical functions of Functional Discourse Grammar (HENGEVELD; MACKENZIE, 2008). Assuming that pragmatic and semantic motivations compete for the morphosyntactic expression (DU BOIS, 1987), the main hypothesis is that competing motivations processes can be left unsolved so that an inadequate construction arises. We discuss some types of inadequate constructions found in the corpus, collected from a bank of high school students’ texts. They are related to a frame in which the inadequacy is viewed as the non satisfaction of a functional demand.

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Author Biographies

  • Márcia Teixeira Nogueira, Universidade Federal do Ceará

    Márcia Teixeira Nogueira tem Doutorado em Linguística e Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Araraquara-SP (1999) e Pós-Doutorado no Instituto de Linguística Teórica e Computacional - ILTEC, em Lisboa/PT, sob a orientação do Prof. Dr. Lachlan Mackenzie, Catedrático Honorário da Universidade de Amsterdã (VU). Desenvolve atividades de ensino, pesquisa e orientação na Graduação em Letras e na Pós-Graduação em Linguística (Mestrado e Doutorado). Coordena o Grupo de Estudos em Funcionalismo (UFC/CNPq), que integra pesquisas na área de Teoria e Análise Linguística, com ênfase na descrição e análise do português em uso. Já publicou trabalhos do grupo com a participação de investigadores estrangeiros em dois livros – Estudos linguísticos de orientação funcionalista e Modo e modalidade: gramática, discurso e interação. Tem atuado na formação de recursos humanos, concluindo a orientação de várias teses de doutorado e dissertações de mestrado, avaliadas e aprovadas por pesquisadores de envergadura internacional.

  • Francisco Ednardo Pinho dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Ceará
    Francisco Ednardo Pinho dos Santos tem Mestrado em Linguística, na área de Teoria e Análise Linguística, e é professor de Língua Portuguesa da rede pública municipal da cidade de Fortaleza. É membro do Grupo de Estudos em Funcionalismo da Universidade Federal do Ceará.

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Published

2014-06-30

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 1 (2014): Grammatical Theories: grammar, usage and linguistic variation in contexts of native and foreign language

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NOGUEIRA, Márcia Teixeira; SANTOS, Francisco Ednardo Pinho dos. Competing Motivations as a Source of Inadequacies in the Clause Coding: an Analysis in the Light of Functional Discourse Grammar. Linha D’Água, São Paulo, v. 27, n. 1, p. 191–205, 2014. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2236-4242.v27i1p191-205. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/linhadagua/article/view/79935.. Acesso em: 15 may. 2024.