Although over 100 million people on various continents use Portuguese as their major language, the academic community in the United States has almost totally neglected the study of Portuguese linguistics. Romance Linguistics links the formal linguistic study of Portuguese with the social contaxt in which language is used. These studies, which cover a wide range of topics, including phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, and discourse, comprise some of the best recent work on Portuguese.Many of the chapters challenge parts of widely recognized theoretical models of language, such as Chomsky's, while others support existing theories or linguistic concepts.
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Although over 100 million people on various continents use Portuguese as their major language, the academic community in the United States has almost totally neglected the study of Portuguese linguistics.
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Introduction Phonology Stress and Rhythm in Brazilian Portuguese by Roy C. Major A Spectrographic Analysis of Portuguese Stressed and Unstressed Vowels by Willis C. Fails and J. Halvor Clegg Morphology Nomes Aumentativos Denominais em Portugues by Maria Carlota Amaral Paixao Rosa Capeverdean Diminutives by Donaldo P. Macedo Syntax Tense and Binding Theory in Portuguese by Jose Meireles and Eduardo Raposo Antecedents and Empty Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese by Dana Wheeler Pragmatics Topico e Ordem Vocabular by Maria Luiza Braga Brazilian Portuguese Directives and a Hierarchy of Strategies for Politeness by Dale April Koike Text and Discourse Analysis The Definite Article in Portuguese: A Discourse Oriented Approach by Celia Mendonca Our December by Haj Ross Index
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The first book published in the United States on Portuguese linguistics, Romance Linguistics presents the best recent work in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, and discourse.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780897892971
Publisert
1992-11-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Praeger Publishers Inc
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
216

Biographical note

DALE A. KOIKE is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas, Austin and is the author of Language and Social Relationships in Brazilian Portuguese: The Pragmatics of Politeness (1992).

DONALDO P. MACEDO is Director of the Graduate Bilingual/ESL Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Macedo is the author (with Paolo Freire) of Literacy: Reading the World and Reading the Word (1987) and many other books and articles.