Lexical inference as resource to read Guimarães Rosa

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21165/gel.v15i1.1839

Keywords:

Guimarães Rosa, Lexical inference, Neologism

Abstract

The aim of this work is to show the importance of lexical inference in the processing of Guimarães Rosa’s text. The theoretical part of this article is based on Kleiman’s (2004) and Kato’s (2000) propositions and, whenever the material on focus demands, the notion of neologism as analysed by Alves (1994) is also approached. The research comes to the conclusion that two inferential contexts are fundamental for the understanding of Guimarães Rosa’s neologisms: contrast and comparison; connotation. It is the conclusion of this work that, in Guimarães Rosa’s text, the language reaches the metaphorical state, in which linguistic possibilities are multiplied by speaker’s inventiveness

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Author Biography

Saul Gomes Júnior, Faculdade Fernão Dias

Graduei-me em Letras na UNAMA (Universidade da Amazônia), em 2001. Tornei-me Mestre (2006) e Doutor (2011) em Filologia e Língua Portuguesa pela USP (Universidade de São Paulo). Desde 2008, leciono na Faculdade Fernão Dias, em Osasco (SP).

Published

2018-04-26

How to Cite

Gomes Júnior, S. (2018). Lexical inference as resource to read Guimarães Rosa. Revista Do GEL, 15(1), 130–148. https://doi.org/10.21165/gel.v15i1.1839