Banca de DEFESA: LAYANNE ROBERTA DE ARAUJO SILVA

A STUDY OF ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE: THE LIKE AND KIND OF LINGUISTIC CONSTRUCTIONS FROM THE FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVE.

English; Orality; Interaction; Discursive Markers.

This research aims to verify how the linguistic phenomena like and kind of are used from the perspective of synchrony and diachrony, the uses allow the grammaticalization route of languages, presenting change over time, the result of internal and external motivations of the speakers and which constitute functional slippages of the analyzed items. And so, to support our analysis of the forms, I highlight the samples produced by speakers, woven into the documentary The Last Dance, and how these constitute the outline of orality in English as an additional language. In order to substantiate our analysis, we followed the functionalist theoretical approach, of a qualitative-quantitative nature, which is characterized by a focus on the quantity and interpretation of data, and in which, through the natural observation of events, the researcher reflects on the observed facts. The research instrument for the documentary is Content Analysis (CA) defended by Herring (2010) which explains how to analyze web content step by step. The stratifications present types that correspond to definitions already consolidated in the dictionary, and others present the incorporation of new linguistic forms/functions by individuals. Thus, we seek to highlight how the forms kind of and like are worked on, verifying whether there is a categorical stigmatization of these constructions or whether we are simply seeking a grammatical definition. To do this, we seek to identify the meanings recorded in dictionaries, in effect we show that much of what happened in the past has repercussions on interaction processes, and how the occurrence of these phenomena are strictly linked to the characteristics of the class event, specifically, traditional grammar in English (IL), therefore, given a personal didactic concern, it was considered relevant to include a discussion on the treatment of orality and its deviations in interaction situations. We also found that there is a lack of pragmatic treatment of orality, this is because it is reflected in the use of inadequate Discursive Markers (DMs).