http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/23836 2026-06-21T14:03:18Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86445 Título: A percepção das consoantes nasais na língua inglesa por falantes do português brasileiro Autor(es): Melo, Patrícia Minelly da Paz Abstract: This dissertation aims to investigate how Brazilian learners of English perceive nasal consonants in syllable-final (coda) position. The relevance of this study lies in the fact that inadequate perception of these sounds may compromise intelligibility and, consequently, effective communication in English, as accurate perception constitutes a fundamental stage in the learner’s phonetic-phonological development. By gaining a better understanding of how these difficulties manifest, the study seeks to contribute to pedagogical reflections aimed at improving the phonological perception of English language learners, thereby fostering clearer and more effective communication. Grounded in the Speech Learning Model (SLM) (Flege, 1995; Flege & Bohn, 2021), this study assumes that phonetic representations from the first language directly influence how sounds in an additional language are perceived, particularly when such sounds involve phonetic differences or contrasts that are absent in the learner’s L1. Within this framework, the study focuses on the perception of English nasal consonants /m/, /n/, and /ŋ/ in syllable-final position by speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. The study adopts a quantitative, descriptive approach. Data was collected through an auditory perception test designed based on minimal triplets containing nasal consonants in syllable-final position. The identification test was administered using the TP software (Rauber, Rato, Kluge, & Santos, 2012), in which participants identified the target sounds within sentences containing the target words. The results revealed that vowel context significantly influenced the perception of nasal consonants in coda position, but in the opposite direction of the initial hypothesis: words preceded by the vowel /ʌ/ showed greater perceptual stability and lower error rates than those preceded by /æ/. The position of the target word in the sentence (medial or final) did not exert a significant effect on participants’ performance. In contrast, sentence type proved to be relevant, as declarative sentences yielded higher perceptual accuracy than interrogative ones. Overall, the findings corroborate the assumptions of the Speech Learning Model by indicating that phonological differences between Brazilian Portuguese and English influence the formation of perceptual categories in L2. Tipo: Dissertação 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86225 Título: O apagamento da oclusiva alveolar /d/ de gerúndio no falar de Fortaleza-CE Autor(es): Tavares, Cristina Paula Abstract: This study aims to analyze the production and deletion of /d/ in gerund verbs in the speech of Fortaleza-CE, a phenomenon that can occur with or without the articulation of the phoneme /d/. The investigation is based on the Theory of Linguistic Variation and Change (Labov, 1994, 2001, 2003, 2008; Weinreich; Labov; Herzog, 2006), seeking to understand the influence of linguistic and extralinguistic factors on the production and deletion of /d/ in gerund verbs. The data collected were extracted from participants from the aforementioned city who were born and have resided there for at least 10 uninterrupted years, in cases where they had moved away from the region, that is, lived in another city for some period. The sample was stratified according to age group (I: 18-28 years old, II: 29-39) and educational level (completed secondary and higher education). In addition, linguistic factors extracted from verbs in the gerund form whose thematic vowels belong to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd conjugations were considered. The data were extracted from a corpus of image descriptions and readings of carrier phrases, and analyzed through auditory perception (listening) by four judges. This perceptual analysis observed when the /d/ of the gerund was pronounced or not, or when the judge had doubts. Subsequently, possible effects of the predictor variables on the response variable, the deletion of the /d/ of the gerund, were verified. Then, possible effects of the predictor variables on the response variable, the deletion of the /d/ in gerunds, were verified. The results indicate that verbs of the 1st conjugation are those that most favor the phenomenon, with a percentage of 22.7%, exceeding the rates recorded for the 2nd (17.1%) and 3rd conjugations (15.5%). Regarding extralinguistic variables, synchronic stability was observed between generational groups. The contiguity between the investigated age ranges (18-28 years old, Range I and 29- 39 years old, Range II) revealed very similar deletion rates (19.1% in Range I and 17.9% in Range II), suggesting that speakers share similar social pressures. This near-homogeneity characterizes the phenomenon not as an ongoing change, but as a consolidated linguistic marker in the speech community. Regarding education, it was confirmed that speakers with secondary education tend to delete more (19.3%) than those with higher education (17.8%), highlighting the role of formal instruction as an inhibiting factor. It is concluded that deletion in Fortaleza is conditioned by an intersection of phonetic-functional factors and normative pressures. Tipo: Dissertação 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/86041 Título: Letramento crítico literário, nos anos iniciais, à luz do interacionismo sociodiscursivo Autor(es): Frota, Valéria Moura Abstract: The focus of our research is the formation of the critical reader, as we believe that developing this remarkable skill is fundamental because it enables readers to interact effectively in various sectors of society. Given the importance of reading for the formation of this reflective and participatory reader, who needs to act in daily practices, but also in various social practices, we seek reading practices that can contribute to the teacher's actions in the "process of developing their learner so that they can interact more meaningfully in communicative situations inside and outside the classroom" (Leurquin, 2014). In accordance with the guiding documents of Fortaleza DCRFort (2023), This work focused on a proposed lesson plan for reading fairy tales, based on the contributions of Cicurel (1991) and later redesigned by Leurquin (2014). This didactic device is based on the epistemological framework of Sociodiscursive Interactionism (ISD), as conceived by Bronckart (2023) and his collaborators. We analyzed the students' responses, highlighting the influence of the categories of production context, thematic content and modalizations on the formation of the critical literary reader and the development of language skills. We proposed an action research Thiollen (2011) based on qualitative principles, in which we construct the results through interaction of the researcher with the subjects who are historically situated. For the overall lesson planning, we adopted the didactic sequence model from Dolz and Schneuwly (2011), adapted in this work the reading of the fairy tales Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella by Charles Perrault, Donkey Skin, and Rumpelstiltskin by Brothers Grimm, in order to expand students' reading capabilities. The main focus of this work, therefore, is to contribute to the formation of an active reader aware in contemporary society. The results demonstrate a qualitative improvement in relation to the perception of the context of production and modalizations for the construction of reflective reading. However, we observed that the thematic content left a gap, indicating that it still needs other approaches for effective learning. Tipo: Dissertação 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/85929 Título: Uma análise discursiva crítica e multimodal de cadeias intertextuais de memes políticos Autor(es): Alves, Verônica Maria Abstract: This qualitative research focuses on the internet genre meme, and it is based on the notions of genre chain and intertextuality (FAIRCLOUGH, 2003). Genre chains are different genres that are regularly put together, and they go through systematic changes. These changes can contribute to actions through time and space that can link social events to social practices in different countries, strengthening action at distance, which is one of the aspects of globalization and power (FAIRCLOUGH, 2003). The corpus consists of memes about street demonstrations in 2013 and 2015 in the social networks Twitter and Facebook. This research addresses textual and interactional analysis, including interdiscursive analysis involving linguistic analysis based on Fairclough´s actional meaning (genres) and identificational meaning (styles) (FAIRCLOUGH, 2003), in his development of Halliday´s metafunctions (HALLIDAY, 1994). In relation to the actional meaning, which examines a text as (inter)action in social events, I analyze the internet meme as part of a genre chain in social networks, and it is related to the news, which recontextualizes political discourse in the media. As to the manifestation of styles related to the negotiation and construction of identities in discourse, one of the devices that are used refers to visual resources, multimodal elements that structure the genre in question. I adopt the theoretical-methodological principles of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as qualitative research, according to Fairclough (2001, 2003), and Systemic-Functional Linguistics, according to Halliday and Matthiessen (2004). I also use studies by Kress and van Leeuwen (2006) about multimodality, Knobel and Lankshear (2005), and Recuero (2006) on memes, and Milner (2012) and Shifman (2014), whose concern is the meme as a political element in the media. I noted that, defining and characterizing the internet meme in a genre chain, genres are articulated to construct and naturalize potentially ideological meanings. Tipo: Dissertação 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z