Pragmatic functions of statements with double denial in Florianópolis: a survey in sociolinguistic interviews of the VARSUL Project

Brazilian Portuguese has alternative forms to express sentential negation. Among them, there is double negation, a negative structure that is used in different ways in several Brazilian regions. This study investigates the possible pragmatic functions of sentences with double negation found in 12 so...

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Autores: Goldnadel, Marcos, Petry, Paloma, Lamberti, Luana
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8658767
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cel/article/view/8658767
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Negação sentencial
Denegação
Tópico sentencial
Sentential negation
Denegation
Sentential topic
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Sumario:Brazilian Portuguese has alternative forms to express sentential negation. Among them, there is double negation, a negative structure that is used in different ways in several Brazilian regions. This study investigates the possible pragmatic functions of sentences with double negation found in 12 sociolinguistic interviews with native speakers from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, in the beginning of the 90s. The data analysis shows that sentences with double negation were used to instantiate two pragmatic functions: denegation and return to quantitative topic.