A organização lingüística do espaço nos e-mails pessoais: um estudo da dêixis espacial

Abstract

This research focuses on spatial deixis in personal emails. Our aim is to find out where to point the deictic spatial coordinates, and investigate how these coordinates are constructed in discourse and seek to draw a profile of these coordinates as a function of spatial distance of the interlocutors. To address the phenomenon under study, we focus our research on three pillars: the study of referral, which includes the study of spatial deixis we refer to us, especially the work of Dubois and Mondada (2003), Lyons (1977) Levinson (2007 ), the phenomenon of the construction of referring expressions, we consider very pertinent studies of Ariel (1996, 1998 and 2001) and his theory of accessibility, the semantics of space, we make use of the observations of Lyons (1977) and Saeed (2003) . With the theoretical completed, we analyzed 80 personal emails, 40 interactions and their interviews. The interviews helped to know a little more about the production situation of the messages and also helped to separate the messages into two major groups depending on the spatial distance is established between the interlocutors. Separate groups, marked the deictic and studied the conditions of production and semantics of deictic spaces, we come to several considerations, among which we point out the following: speakers who have significant spatial distance feel a greater need to address the space and it is located, factors diverse nature justifying the emergence of such coordinates in discourse, spaces are mainly metaphorical sense of time and now that point to a type of e-mail; speakers who present a short space feel little need to depict the space, the space depicted, in general, will be shared soon, so the more detail of such marks, the criterion morphosyntactic and first mention of justifying the provision of the coordinates in this block, the spaces have metaphorical idea of time, but point to a later.