The author studies the syntagmatic, semantic and pragmatic properties which characterize the configuration and functioning of a type of emphatic comparison known as emblematic or polar comparison (e.g. alto como uma torre; branco + frio + puro como a neve). Such comparisons are also seen as the root of different formal solutions which are projected in speech, involving specific mechanisms of production and inte...
The author characterizes the notion of coherence as a property of all verbal products which involve the combination of elements (from the syntagma to the text) and stresses that such a property reveals the cognitive, exterior dimensions which are not, however, foreign to the functioning of natural languages. The author underlines the non-idiomatic importance of coherence: this is particularly visible on the lev...
Master’s Degree Dissertation ; The present dissertation covers academic concerns in disruptive change that causes value displacements in today’s competitive economic environment. To enhance survival capabilities organizations are increasing efforts in more untraditional business value assets such intellectual capital and competitive intelligence. Dynamic capabilities, a recent strategy theory states that compa...
Dissertação apresentada para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Estrutural, na Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, sob a orientação do Prof. Doutor Carlos Reis Gomes
The author characterizes the heterogenity in semiotic systems in general and in natural languages in particular, distinguishing two basic types. The article then goes on to survey the most apparent moments and modalities of each of these types of heterogenity in both the structure of language and of discourse.
O Icaro é um veículo desenvolvido na Universidade de Aveiro, resultante de um trabalho pluridisciplinar que integra várias áreas tais como informática, electrónica e mecânica. O desenvolvimento deste veículo iniciou-se em 1997, com o objectivo de participação na prova internacional Shell Eco-Marathon. Neste momento, está em desenvolvimento uma nova plataforma, de nome Hammershark, com o objectivo de criar um ve...
In this study the author analyses the organization and the functioning of discourse in the work referred to in the title. Particular attention is paid to the macrostructures — and their interconnections — which should be recognised in it, to the semantic and semantic-pragmatic axes which run through it, to the argumentative and dialogical moments which are drawn up in it, to the strategies in the order of persu...
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