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This title compares the sounds, phonology, and prosody of General
American English and Southeastern Brazilian Portuguese.
This study analyzes passive sentences in English and Portuguese
which result from a post-semantic transformation applied when a
nound, which does not play the semantic role of actor, is chosen as
syntactic subject. Choice between a passive and its non-passive or
active counterpart reflects differences in the distribution of
information in the sentence as regards the relative importance of
the latter's constituents for communication. Such distribution is
analyzed in terms of Praque school theory, especially that
involving the notions of communicative dynamism and the
distribution of theme and rheme. The book concludes with a
contrastive analysis of English and Portuguese passive sentence
patterns which serves as the basis for observations on the teaching
of Portuguese passives to native speakers of English.
This accessible new book provides a comprehensive introduction to
the linguistic structure of Portuguese. Clearly organised, it
covers the central topics of syntax, phonology, morphology,
semantics and pragmatics, and explores the social and historical
background of Portuguese, its development and spread in the world,
and related sociolinguistic issues such as dialect variation and
language planning. It also includes a chapter on Portuguese in
Brazil, where approximately 80 per cent of Portuguese speakers
live. Assuming very little prior knowledge of linguistic
terminology, Portuguese: A Linguistic Introduction is designed to
help intermediate and advanced students of Portuguese understand
how the language functions at all levels, and to give students of
linguistics a useful starting point for work on the structure of
Portuguese. Keeping linguistic theory to a minimum, it focuses on
presenting the linguistic facts in a clear and lucid way, providing
a useful global overview of the Portuguese language and its
surrounding issues.
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Platinum Doll
Álvaro Cardoso Gomes, Milton M. Azevedo
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R516
Discovery Miles 5 160
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Out of stock
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Ditched Dreams (Paperback)
Karen Sherwood Sotelino; Translated by Milton M. Azevedo; Introduction by Jos Paes
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R363
Discovery Miles 3 630
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Out of stock
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Ditched Dreams is a dazzling novel about workers in a mysterious
mine where they must remain for two years without leaving. To
escape that suffocating environment, the miners tell tales of
frustrated love affairs, revenge, dreams, and witchcraft which are
written down and retold by a worker nicknamed Foureyes. The novel
is spiced with scatological and picaresque scenes, witchcraft
spells and mythological beings, along with science-fiction
inventions such as a Pleasurematic. Readers have recognized scenes
alluding to classical literary works, biblical passages, adventure
novels, old movie serials, and contemporary films. Ditched Dreams
is a cavalcade in which down-to-earth Brazilian humor provokes
non-stop Rabelaisian laughter as the whip of social criticism. The
narrative, essentially oral, includes samples of the vast
linguistic mosaic found in Brazilian Portuguese, dexterously
adapted into a literary dialect that evokes vernacular English from
everywhere and nowhere in particular.
This accessible new book provides a comprehensive introduction to
the linguistic structure of Portuguese. Clearly organised, it
covers the central topics of syntax, phonology, morphology,
semantics and pragmatics, and explores the social and historical
background of Portuguese, its development and spread in the world,
and related sociolinguistic issues such as dialect variation and
language planning. It also includes a chapter on Portuguese in
Brazil, where approximately 80 per cent of Portuguese speakers
live. Assuming very little prior knowledge of linguistic
terminology, Portuguese: A Linguistic Introduction is designed to
help intermediate and advanced students of Portuguese understand
how the language functions at all levels, and to give students of
linguistics a useful starting point for work on the structure of
Portuguese. Keeping linguistic theory to a minimum, it focuses on
presenting the linguistic facts in a clear and lucid way, providing
a useful global overview of the Portuguese language and its
surrounding issues.
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