Banca de DEFESA: MARCOS VICTOR PIRES RODRIGUES

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MARCOS VICTOR PIRES RODRIGUES
DATE: 17/04/2026
TIME: 09:15
LOCAL: Google meet
TITLE:

COGNITIVE STRUCTURES INVOLVED IN THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF MOTION EVENTS IN WRITTEN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE

KEY WORDS:

Conceptualization of motion; Grammatical constructions; Construction Grammar (CxG); Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG); Ecocognition and language.

PAGES: 220
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Lingüística
SUMMARY:

This doctoral thesis aims at characterizing the cognitive structures involved in the conceptualization of motion events in written Brazilian Portuguese. For this investigation, excerpts from the screenplay O Som ao Redor (Mendonça Filho, 2020) expressing motion events were selected. The independent clauses in the excerpts were analyzed according to the Content Analysis technique (Bardin, 2011), being grouped into different categories of constructions of motion. In this process, two general categories of grammatical constructions emerged: self-motion and caused-motion. These categories grounded the characterization of cognitive structures (constructions) that establish relational bindings between two types of knowledge schemas: form schemas and meaning schemas. This characterization first involved a formal description of the constructions, as well as their form and meaning schemas, based on the notational formalism of Embodied Construction Grammar (Bergen & Chang, 2013). Subsequently, a theoretical interpretation was carried out within an ecocognitive framework (Duque, 2024) in order to elucidate how the characterized structures (constructions and schemas) participate in the online conceptualization processes of motion events. This theorization points out means of incorporating the intrinsic connection between cognitive structures and elements available in the contextual surroundings in grammatical analyses.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1675404 - PAULO HENRIQUE DUQUE
Interna - 1393548 - NEDJA LIMA DE LUCENA
Externo à Instituição - AUGUSTO SOARES DA SILVA - UCP
Externo à Instituição - DIOGO OLIVEIRA RAMIRES PINHEIRO - UFRJ
Externa à Instituição - MARIA JUSSARA ABRAÇADO DE ALMEIDA - UFF