As relações semânticas de polissemia e homonímia para um tratamento de heterossemânticos na interface português espanhol / .

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2004

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This works presents a comparative analysis of heterosemantic words from portuguese and spanish. The research was motivated as a result of observing either the change or the displacement of meaning which occurs in substantially similar words in both languages, as well as by observing their relative frequency both in texts and in the (spoken / written) productions of natives and students of a foreign language. The main inquiry specifically turns to a lexical-semantic problem. Namely, what would probably be the reasons for a semantic discrepancy between two substantially identical words in genetically related languages? Is the problem of divergence in the meaning of these lexemes specifically semantic or do other linguistic levels imbricate? Do these lexemes comprise any kind of semantic or of meaning relations, which explains this phenomenon? If so, how does this relation occur either in both languages or in one of them in particular? Thus, this work intends to comparatively describe these lexemes by classifying and analysing them through semantic relations of polysemy and homonymy, and also identify the reasons for their change or displacement of meaning. The corpus of analyses is constituted of paired portuguese and spanish lexical words, phonetically or graphically similar, which are considered as being heterosemantic for their similarity on the expression level (sound) and different on the contents level (meaning). The etymology of these words is described as well their primary and secondary meanings, which, in turn, are exemplified by sentences observed in the formal and informal use of language, spoken or written, which are found in books, texts and dictionaries, as well as in the speakers spontaneous utterances of these languages. The work presents an eminently explanatory character toward the treatment of data, basically under a diachronic and structuralist perspective, since it turns to historical and etymological aspects, by making explicit the reasons of the changes or displacement of meaning. It is also intended with this work, to have this semantic divergence explained through the semantic relations of polysemy and homonymy. On one hand, the work is theoretically founded on the postulates of the Applied Linguistics, focalizing at the interference/interlanguage notion and at the delimitation and classification of heterosemantics. On the other hand, it searches the General Linguistics and the Semantic Linguistics when specifically dealing with lexical-semantic matters in the light of the semantic line referred to as pre-Structuralist, preconized by Saussure , and in the discussions by Ullmann, Guiraud, Lyons. The linguistic sign and its nature, the arbitrariness and mutability, the linguistic value, the semantic relations of polysemy and homonymy are, among other topics discussed. Thus, from the comparative analysis of data, the heterosemantics are classified in: homonymous and polysemics, which are divided into four sub-groups stemmed from distinct linguistic processes. In summary, the true heterosemantics (the homonymous ones) arise from phonetic evolution, or from semantic divergences in their origin; the accidental heterosemantics (the polysemic ones) become as they are from semantic evolution, displacement of meaning, or distinct semantic features. Portuguese is also thought to have more motivated lexemes than spanish, for the degree of arbitrariness and motivation is different in both languages; although the confronted languages have a number of cognates in common, it is also confirmed that they become heterosemantic, because of semantic displacement or changes which have occurred in each language in particular.

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polissemia polysemy mudanças ou deslocamento de sentido homonymy heterosemantics semantic evolution or displacement of meaning linguistica heterossemânticos homonímia

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