«ainda é nova a música, i think» Zur Code-Alternation in portugiesischen online-Diskursen

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  • The present paper is concerned with the use of English cognitive verbs like think, mean and guess as well as with fixed expressions that contain these verbs like guess what (?) or think about it in Portuguese online discourses. In the qualitative analysis of examples retrieved from the Corpus do Português (Web/Dialects) I mainly focus on the syntactic behavior of the expressions under survey, also comparing their use and function in the English language. In the final part of the paper I reflect about possible reasons of the employment ofThe present paper is concerned with the use of English cognitive verbs like think, mean and guess as well as with fixed expressions that contain these verbs like guess what (?) or think about it in Portuguese online discourses. In the qualitative analysis of examples retrieved from the Corpus do Português (Web/Dialects) I mainly focus on the syntactic behavior of the expressions under survey, also comparing their use and function in the English language. In the final part of the paper I reflect about possible reasons of the employment of English elements in Portuguese conversation.show moreshow less

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Author: Anja Hennemann
URN:urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172882
Document Type:Journal article
Faculties:Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Neuphilologisches Institut - Moderne Fremdsprachen
Language:German
Parent Title (German):promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik
ISSN:2510-2613
Year of Completion:2017
Volume:3
Pagenumber:107-125
Source:promptus 3 (2017), S. 107-125
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 46 Spanisch, Portugiesisch / 469 Portugiesisch
Tag:Englisch; Portugiesisch; online-Kommunikation
(nonce) borrowing; Code-switching
Release Date:2018/11/29
Collections:Zeitschriften (Journals) / promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik / Band 3 / Artikel / articles
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International