“Me chamou de nazista logo eu que sou judeu”: radialidade e (inter)subjetividade das construções com “logo” no português

Abstract

This work aims to map and analyze adverbial, connective, and focusing constructions formed by the term "logo" in the Portuguese language, namely: “P logoadv.temp.”; “P logocon.temp. que Q”; “P logocon.concl. Q”; “P logofoc.esp. ”; “P logofoc.temp. ”; “P logofoc.eve”; “P logofoc.desc.SN (Q)”; “P logofoc.disj. SN que Q”. We argue that these constructions serve distinct discursive-pragmatic purposes, thus obeying the Principle of Non-Synonymy (Goldberg, 1995, p. 67). In this sense, the proposal fits into the theoretical-methodological discussions of Cognitive Linguistics, with the construction holding the centrality of meaning, as a guide for the research (Fillmore; Kay, 1999; Goldberg, 1995, 2006; Langacker, 1987, 1990, 1991, 2008). Our hypothesis is that the constructions formed by the term “logo” in the Portuguese language have, a spatial sense in their genesis evolving into a temporal sense and from there to a conclusive sense (Gonçalves; Lima-Hernandes; Casseb-Galvão, 2007), based on invited inferences (Traugott; Dasher, 2005). Thus, we argue that such constructions bear a specific form-function pairing with a central meaning that radiates properties to other constructions, whose meanings are more peripheral, since they are added discursively and intersubjectively (Brugman, Lakoff, 1988), thus signaling a gradation in terms of (inter)subjectivity, through processes of construal (Langacker, 1987, 1990, 1991, 2008; Verhagen, 2005, 2008, 2013), since they occur in interactional contexts in which speaker and addressee, assuming increasingly subjectified meanings, signal distinct perspectives on a given speech event, contributing to a non-alignment of points of view (Almeida, 2010; Almeida; Ferrari, 2012; Almeida, 2019). The methodology used in this work is both quantitative and qualitative (Cook; Reichardt, 1979; Richardson, 1985; Creswell, 2010) and is based on Corpus Linguistics (BerberSardinha, 2000; Tagnin, 2002; Mcnery; Hardie, 2012). The corpus used is the Corpus do Português (Mark Davies, 2018). The results point to metonymic and metaphorical processes, essentially intersubjective, that allow the interpretation of constructions in a gradient relationship in which more deitically grounded meanings give way to meanings more grounded in the speaker/ addressee dyad (Traugott; Dasher, 2005).