Verbal tense, verbal mood and the conception of reality in portuguese

Whenever we think or talk about situations or events, we give them a status in reality. So, a crucial question is: how do we conceptualize reality? The answer to this question is essential for understanding how we use the verbal tense and the verbal mood, since they are grammatical resources that al...

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Autor: Abraçado, Jussara
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN)
Repositorio:Cadernos de Linguística
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs3.cadernos.abralin.org:article/321
Acceso en línea:https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/321
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Tempo verbal
Modo verbal
Concepção de realidade
Português
Gramática Cognitiva
Verbal tense
Verbal mood
Conception of reality
Portuguese
Cognitive Grammar
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Sumario:Whenever we think or talk about situations or events, we give them a status in reality. So, a crucial question is: how do we conceptualize reality? The answer to this question is essential for understanding how we use the verbal tense and the verbal mood, since they are grammatical resources that allow us to locate the conceptualized situation in a specific area of (un) reality, that is: (i) at the level of past reality or immediate reality, if the situation is conceptualized as factual; (ii) at the level of  reality not established, if the existence of the situation is not accepted; and (iii) at the level of projected reality or potential reality, if the occurrence of a future situation is conceptualized, respectively, as predictable or only possible. This essay, which is theoretically based on Cognitive Grammar (Langacker, 1991, 1999, 2003), aims to approach the relationship between the verbal tense, the verbal mood and the conceptualization of reality in Portuguese. For that, examples of different situations extracted from online news, obtained in the Google search tool, are presented and discussed.