Morphic-syntactic aspects and the functionality of the article as a text builder
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https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v49i2.2585Keywords:
article, functionality, sigmatization.Abstract
The article is one of the most expressive categories, but not always explored. Some authors take it out of passivity and give it a fierce and multiple tone. The presence of the definite article reinforces the pluralized abstract names, emphasizing their vagueness; just as its omission empties the edges of concrete names, generating sigmatization. The article also creates a rhythmic function and has an intensifying role at the intonative level, as the tonal accent reinforces the substantive content. And a text produced by a logical punctuation, absent the affective system, translates affective tones, intensive tones, if skillfully manipulated morphic-syntactic structures. In the light of studies by the following authors: Macambira (1974), Cressot (1969), Borba (1971), Brik (1978), Paiva (1961), Pimpão (1942), we propose to discuss the use and function of the article from the morphic and syntactic point of view as well as its functionality within the text: the superlativation, the emphasis, the intonation. Thus, the letter Ao Sr. E. Mollinet, in Correspondência de Fradique Mendes, by Eça de Queiroz (s/d), served as a context for the application of the listed theory, since the ecian use of the article contextualizes situations that indicate the highlighted conditions.Downloads
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