Padrões microconstrucionais com logo no português brasileiro: uma investigação a partir da linguística funcional centrada no uso

Abstract

The aim of this study is to investigate micro-constructions with logo in Brazilian Portuguese, outlining the form-function pairings that characterize each identified micro-constructional pattern. Some examples of constructions with logo include logo mais, logo logo, logo eu, among others. This research is grounded in the theoretical framework of Usage-Based Functional Linguistics (Furtado da Cunha et al., 2013; Rosário; Oliveira, 2016; Bispo; Silva, 2016) and, more specifically, on the constructional approach to language change (Traugott; Trousdale, 2013). From a methodological perspective, we adopt a mixed-methods approach as proposed by Cunha Lacerda (2016), which holds that the combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses can provide empirical evidence for the occurrence of constructionalization processes. For the development of this research, we used the corpus compiled by Martins (2021), which consists of ten profiles from the social media platform X – formerly Twitter – totaling approximately 1,700,000 words. As a result, twelve micro-constructional patterns with logo were identified, which are distributed along an intersubjectivity continuum.