Research Groups
- CompLin – Computação e Linguagem Natural
Group leaders: Prof. Dr. Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar Araripe and Prof. Dr. Alexandre Rademaker
http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/31925
- Discurso, cotidiano e práticas culturais – Grupo Discuta
Group leaders: Prof. Dr. Maria das Dores Nogueira Mendes and Prof. Dr. Nelson Barros da Costa
http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/0941243358751615
- GEF – Grupo de Estudos em Funcionalismo – Study Group in Functionalism
The Study Group in Functionalism (GEF) was created in 2001, at the Federal University of Ceará, and it is registered at CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development)’s Groups Directory. With a theoretical background on linguistic Functionalism, with different branches, all the research developed by the group members – undergraduate and graduate students, masters, doctoral students and doctors – is characterized by the interest in investigating language in its use, in other words, how social interactions in several discursive practices are established by means of language.
The group’s practice has three lines of research: description of Portuguese; description of Spanish and language teaching. The research developed by the group members adopts the following theoretical-methodological functionalist assumptions:
a) language serves to different purposes as an instrument of social interaction among human beings and, therefore, it cannot be investigated as an autonomous, abstract and homogeneous object;
b) language constitutes a semiotic system, as an organic configuration of functions related to the production of meaning that derive from the individuals’ choices;
c) grammar must consider the effective linguistic use, being the researcher’s role to analyze the communicative functions of linguistic expressions;
d) the investigation of language in use considers the integration between the analysis’ components, in other words, the existence of a systematicity among the functional domains of syntax, of semantics and pragmatics, syntax being a codification of the semantic and discursive domains;
e) linguistic investigation assumes the fluidity of the categories caused by the pressures of uses over the grammatical system.
The group’s studies are oriented by the following research questions:
a) How are the functional domains addressed by functionalist theories characterized according to the different levels of linguistic codification (over the continuum between lexicon and grammar)?;
b) What boundaries indeterminacies exist between the categories of items and constructions, and represent a challenge to the elaboration of a reference grammar for Portuguese?;
c) What theoretical hypotheses, which address the interfaces between grammar, discourse and cognition, have empirical evidence in the investigation of these boundaries indeterminacies in concrete situations of Portuguese use?;
d.a) What functional-based relations exist in concrete situations of Portuguese use?
d.b) What functional-based relations exist between the aspects of formulation and linguistic codification, and the social-interactional aspects which prototypically characterize the different discourses and text genres and types?;
e) What structural, cognitive and discursive conditionings are empirically observable in language variation and change?
It is worth highlighting that the group maintains exchange with foreign institutions, especially by means of the accomplishment of split-site doctoral and postdoctoral placements. The group members have been presenting works in national and international events in the field, publishing research results in events procedures, books chapters and national journals. Up to the present moment, the group has published two collections (Functionalism-oriented linguistic studies, in 2007; Mode and modality: grammar, discourse and interaction, in 2011). In November 2016, the group has organized the Conference in Functionalism Studies, with the presence of the following professors: Prof. Dr. Maria Helena de Moura Neves, Prof. Dr. Marize Dall’Áglio Hattnher and Prof. Dr. Edvaldo Bispo, celebrating its 15 years of academic work.
The Study Group in Functionalism has a website (http://www.gef.ufc.br/) and the following e-mail address: gef.gr.pq@gmail.com.
- GELP – COLIN (Cognição e Linguística)
Group leaders: Prof. Dr. Ana Cristina Pelosi and Prof. Dr. Letícia Adriana Pires Ferreira dos Santos
http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/13726
- Grupo de Estudos em Representações, Linguagem e Trabalho (GERLIT)
Group leaders: Prof. Dr. Pollyanne Bicalho Ribeiro and Prof. Dr. Jose Marcos Ernesto Santana de França
http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/611726
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Protexto
The researches of the Protexto group are interested in demonstrating how the Textual Linguistics can contribute to showing other ways of argumentative proceeds that go beyond the argumentative techniques and rhetorical figures. We seek to explain, based on the Textual Linguistics and on the theory of argumentation in discourse, of Ruth Amossy, as well as on the approach of the argumentation in genres, of Rosalice Pinto, different textual choices that the subject makes in his talk, reworking it all the time, negotiating it not only due to its (probable) interlocutors, but also due to the social roles set in the scene during interactions, to accomplish persuasion strategies. We ponderabout the notions of argumentation and persuasion themselves, relied on the Rhetorical and New Rhetorical inheritance, taking that there is a strong influence of the genres sociorhetorical practices on the way argumentation is produced in a text. This project relies on the assumption that there is no argumentative discourse, but argumentativity degrees; the argumentation as a continuum , that goes from a co-construction of replies to the antagonistic thesis combat. This assumption converges to Adam’s thesis that every text is argumentatively oriented, through the pragmatic or configurational points of view, and holds social representations and beliefs.
- Semioce – Grupo de Estudos Semióticos da Universidade Federal do Ceará
Semioce is the Semiotics research group at Universidade Federal do Ceará. Since 2008, it gathers students and researchers who are interested in Semiotics. The group is attached to the graduate program in Linguistics at the same university and focuses on French school Semiotics due to the high heuristic power of its methodology. However, in view of our belief against the compartmentalization of knowledge, it invests on the permeability of Semiotics, in its different trends, and that of other fields that also research the generation of meaning. The group maintains weekly meetings to debate themes related to the production and interpretation of meaning in verbal, non-verbal and syncretic texts.
- SOCIOLIN-CE (Grupo de Pesquisas Sociolinguísticas)
Group leaders: Prof. Dr. Márluce Coan and Prof. Dr. Hebe Macedo de Carvalho
http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/5000856381029537
- SOCIOLIN-LE (Pesquisas Sociofuncionalistas em Línguas Estrangeiras)
Group leaders: Prof. Dr. Márluce Coan and Prof. Dr. Valdecy de Oliveira Pontes
