Estudo comparativo entre frames de comunicação do inglês e do português do Brasil

Abstract

This research is part of a larger project called FrameNet Brasil that, among other aims, intends to, through corpus analyses, define the Portuguese frames based on the English ones described by the Berkeley FrameNet Project. Thereby, this work focuses on the description of the following Portuguese frames: Communication, Communication Means and Communication Manner. This study is supported by the frame semantics theory and was developed according to the Berkeley FrameNet Project model. First, the frames were described and the core and non-core elements were defined. Then, the lexical units were annotated in the corpora chosen. By doing this, it was possible to create tables with the patterns found and compare then to the English original. The initial hypothesis that the Portuguese frames are similar to the English ones was confirmed, even though, we noticed that the ULs behave differently in the two languages analysed. For example, in English, the syntatic realization of the FE Message for the LU babble is Obj.NP and Dep.QUO while in Portuguese is Obj.NP, Obj.QUO, INI, DNI. Analysing these three frames, this work contributes to the description of the Portuguese frames and to the creation, in the future, of a network with semantic equivalents among languages based on frame.