This dissertation aims to discuss the phenomenon of metarepresentation in translation from a Relevance Theory-based analysis of expert translators inferential processes when dealing with unfamiliar contexts, i.e., a source ...

Drawing on Gutt’s (2000, p. 205) observation that “human beings have the remarkable ability of telling in one language what was first told in another language” and on the assumption that this ability is guided by the ...

This work discusses the notion of metarepresentation – questioning the legitimity of the political discursive representation (Saward, 2010; Dryzek, 2008) – from a research on the brazilian deaf people social movement. Our ...

Metafictive utterances raise a kind of intuitions (intuitions of truthfulness) that pose a problem for a view that combines a referentialist approach to proper names with an antirealist stance on fictional characters. In ...

This dissertation is divided in three chapters. Chapter 1 addresses the varieties of the concept of consciousness, in this chapter we present a taxonomic proposal of the concept of consciousness oriented by the arity and ...

This dissertation aims at investigating political representation around demands and positions on the discussion about the best education model for deaf people: bilingual, special or inclusive school. Specifically, we seek ...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) presents qualitative impairments as characteristics, related to interaction, social communication and behavioral patterns. The processes that enable social development and, therefore, the ...