Tipos de foco no português do Brasil:

Produção e percepção multimodal

Autores

  • Manuella Carnaval UFRJ
  • João Antônio de Moraes UFRJ
  • Albert Olivier Blaise Rilliard

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-460x202258944

Palavras-chave:

focalization; audiovisual prosody; Brazilian Portuguese.

Resumo

Este artigo descreve a focalização prosódica como um fenômeno multimodal no português do Brasil, investigando a relevância de duas modalidades na produção e percepção do foco: auditiva (A), visual (V), além de sua apresentação audiovisual (AV). Cinco tipos de foco são considerados, de acordo com seus valores semântico-pragmáticos: (a) em enunciados assertivos: (i) FI – foco informacional (uma resposta a uma pergunta prévia, constituindo informação nova), (ii) FC – foco contrastivo (correção de uma informação errada), (iii) FAT – foco atenuado (proposição de uma solução alternativa para uma afirmação prévia); (b) em enunciados interrogativos: (i) FINT – foco interrogativo (uma nova informação requisitada em uma pergunta); (ii) FE – foco com estranheza (uma informação prévia é colocada em dúvida). Também foram investigadas a extensão e a posição do foco na sentença. Após a aplicação de um experimento perceptivo e de uma análise multimodal, os resultados mostraram que a multimodalidade apresenta relevância na produção e percepção do foco. No entanto, diferentes parâmetros acústicos e visuais, ou a sua combinação, contribuem para a transmissão de diferentes significados, segundo cada tipo de foco.

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Publicado

2023-09-09

Como Citar

Carnaval, M. ., Moraes, . J. A. de ., & Rilliard, A. O. B. (2023). Tipos de foco no português do Brasil: : Produção e percepção multimodal. DELTA: Documentação E Estudos Em Linguística Teórica E Aplicada, 38(3). https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-460x202258944