Bispo, Edvaldo BalduinoSantiago, Cleide da Silva Farias2017-10-052017-10-052017-06-22SANTIAGO, Cleide da Silva Farias. A construção causal-explicativa (por + sn + de + x) em perspectiva funcional. 2017. 85f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Estudos da Linguagem) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2017.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/23991We investigate, in this work the causal-explanatory construction [POR + SN + DE + X] in functional perspective. We discuss the traditional (difficulty of) distinction between cause and explanation, proposing to have a continuum between these two relations. Our aim was to examine it in order to identify formal and functional properties, considering its instances of use in real communication situations, and propose a continuum of related meanings. Approaching a functional perspective, the research is based on theoretically-methodologically in the Use- oriented linguist (Functional) LFCU, according to Martelotta (2011) and Furtado da Cunha, Bispo and Silva (2013). This approach assumes the assumptions of North American Functional Linguistics, as defined by Givón (1979, 1995, 2011), Hopper (1991), Bybee (2010, 2011) and Traugott (2011), and Cognitive Linguistics, represented by Lakoff 1987), Langacker (1987), Lakoff and Johnson (1999). In addition, some contributions from the Grammar of Constructions, represented by Goldberg (1995), Croft (2001) and Traugott and Trousdale (2013). The data used for the analysis were taken from the Corpus Discurso & Gramática, sections Natal (FURTADO DA CUNHA, 1998) and Rio de Janeiro, (VOTRE; OLIVEIRA, 1995), composed of oral and written texts, and texts of several genres extracted from newspaper Tribuna do Norte, produced in Rio Grande do Norte. The research presents a qualitative-quantitative approach, with a predominance of the first one. It also has a descriptive and explanatory feature. Based on the results, it was identified that the framing under study represents an abstract scheme that licenses different microstructures based on the filling of the SN slot, which present semantic-cognitive and discursive-pragmatic specificities. In addition, it was found that the core of slot X can be filled by a SN (lexical or pronominal) or by a sentence. Besisdes that it was verified that, beyond to cause and explanation, this constructional pattern is related to a continuum of other senses, which involves the ideas of motive, reason, and justification.Acesso AbertoCausa-explicaçãoLinguística funcional centrada no usoConstruçãomasterThesisCNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA