The present article analyzes a textual corpus formed by stories of reading life written by teachers in training, with emphasis on frequency index, lexical richness, representativeness and coverage curve with the use of ...

Uma entrada lexical, unidade semântica que engloba afixos, palavras e metáforas, é o primeiro contato que uma criança em processo de aquisição tem com a sua língua materna. Este trabalho centra seu foco no conceito de ...

Lexical function is a concept which formalizes semantic and syntactic relations between lexical units. Relations between words are a vital part of any natural language system. Meaning of an individual word largely depends ...

This research, essentially qualitative and exploratory, has the main objective of analyzing a corpus of neological syntagmatic compositions found in advertising texts of three Brazilian magazines, namely Veja, Época and ...

Really knowing a word goes far beyond of being able to infer its meaning. Using it properly requires a skill that demands a deep knowledge of lexical items by the speaker of a language. Clearly, native teachers are responsible ...

Relying on several reference authors on the subject, this paper discusses what the lexicon is, the importance of its teaching in the classroom, what is lexical competence and how it should be developed in the student, in ...

This study analyzes the phraseological units found in the language of popular print media, in order to show the lexical productivity in journalistic discourse, more specifically, of phraseological components. It was examined ...

This paper, motivated by the relations between language and culture, especially the relations between lexicon and social facts, aims to show some aspects of lexical innovation in contemporary Portuguese in Brazil, from ...