The use of metaphors in academic Portuguese by undergraduate students: a corpus-based analysis
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1519-5392.2017v17n2p231Keywords:
Conceptual Metaphor, Academic Discourse, Academic Portuguese, Corpus LinguisticsAbstract
Research and studies have shown that metaphor plays an important role in academic discourse, which has fueled discussions and reflections about its use (Herrmann, 2013; Gianonni, 2009; Gibbs, 2008; Stefanowitsch; Gries, 2006). Research on this phenomenon is still very incipient concerning Portuguese academic discourse, making necessary a study that investigates the use of metaphors in this sense. Considering this scenario, this research aims to analyze and discuss the use of metaphors in academic Portuguese, in order to promote a characterization of this type of genre, as well as to assist native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese as an additional language in the future. Assuming the Cognitive Linguistics perspective, which understands that the conceptual system of the human being is fundamentally metaphorical in nature (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 1980), we analyzed a corpus consisting of academic articles published by undergraduate students (native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese) from a university a private university of the South of Brazil. The corpus comprises 30 final papers from two different areas: Communication and Computer Science. From the analysis performed, we could observe that these areas seem to use the metaphors in a differentiated way, with distinct characteristics in each of them.
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