Null subjects in contemporary Brazilian filmic speech

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v25iEsp.34794

Keywords:

Brazilian Portuguese, null subject languages, (overt and null) referential pronominal subject, filmic speech, European Portuguese.

Abstract

The present research, based on a corpus of contemporary Brazilian filmic speech – Urban Carioca Sub-Corpus from the I-Fala Corpus of Luso-Brazilian Film Dialogues as a resource for L1 & L2 Learning and Linguistic Research (DE ROSA et al., 2017) –, illustrates how Brazilian Portuguese (BP) has undergone a process of change regarding the representation of referential subjects. A preference for overt pronominal subjects is on the rise, thus transitioning contemporary Brazilian Portuguese from a null subject language to a partial null subject language. The current paper revisits De Rosa (2017), this time including third person subjects and using actual film dialogue transcriptions rather than scripts. The occurrence of null and overt subjects in the corpus is discussed both quantitatively and qualitatively.

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Author Biography

Gian Luigi De Rosa

Professor associado de Lingua e Traduzione – Lingue Portoghese e Brasiliana na Università degli Studi Roma Tre. Presidente da V edição do SIMELP - SIMPÓSIO MUNDIAL DE ESTUDOS DE LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA, 2015 (http://www.simelp.it/). Desde 2014 é membro do Grupo de Pesquisa Internacional “Rede de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa ao Redor do Mundo – RELPMUND (CNPq). Desde 2017 é membro, como Pesquisador Convidado, do Projeto de Pesquisa Internacional “Produção da Enciclopédia audiovisual virtual em análise do discurso e áreas afins: novos verbetes e legen- dagem para divulgação científica”, coordenado por Bethania Mariani (Instituto de Letras – UFF/CNPq). Desde 2017 é membro e Principal Investigator do Grupo de Pesquisa Internacional “I-FALA Luso-Brazilian Film Dialogues as a resource for L1 & L2 Learning and Linguistic Reserach”. Desde 2018 é membro, como Pesquisador Convidado, do Projeto de Pesquisa Internacional “History, Circulation and Analysis of Literary, Artistic and Social Discourses”, coordenado por José L. Jobim e Silvio Renato Jorge (UFF/CAPES). É autor de vários ensaios dedicados à língua, à linguística portuguesa e brasileira e à tradução audiovisual e intersemiótica e é tradutor literário e audiovisual.

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Published

2020-07-31

How to Cite

De Rosa, G. L. (2020). Null subjects in contemporary Brazilian filmic speech. Gragoatá, 25(Esp), 244-267. https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v25iEsp.34794

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Vol. 25 (2020): Commemorative Issue - Linguistics and Literature: trends, ruptures, innovations

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Language Articles

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