The suffix -AZO in lexical-phraseological units: a contrastive Spanish/Portuguese analysis in a journalistic corpus

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https://doi.org/10.26378/rnlael1632476

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suffix -AZO, lexical-phraseological units, journalistic corpus

Abstract

This paper analyzes lexico-phraseological units, based on the instances of words formed by derivation with the suffix -AZO. Through a contrastive analysis in a Spanish/Portuguese journalistic corpus, in opinion articles dealing with Argentine-Brazilian politics, morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic aspects in the formation of these words and in phraseological units were addressed. Besides the semantic value of augmentative, several appreciative values of blow and protest or popular demonstration were identified and described, achieving processes of lexicalization and metaphorization. Principles and tools characteristic of Corpus Linguistics were used for data identification, extraction, and analysis.

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Ariel Novodvorski, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Associate Professor at the Institute of Letters and Linguistics of the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (ILEEL/UFU - Brazil). D. in Linguistic Studies from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), with a postdoctorate from the Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, 2020). As a teacher, he works in the undergraduate course of Language/Spanish and in the Postgraduate Programme in Linguistic Studies (PPGEL). His research interests include: Descriptive studies, corpus linguistics, translation studies, Spanish language, phraseology, terminology and systemic-functional linguistics. She has more than twenty years of experience in teaching, research and translation. He has published in several indexed journals and books. He is director of the Institute of Languages and Linguistics (2017-2025). 

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2022-04-08

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Novodvorski, A. (2022). The suffix -AZO in lexical-phraseological units: a contrastive Spanish/Portuguese analysis in a journalistic corpus. Nebrija Journal of Applied Linguistics to Language Teaching, 16(32), 58–75. https://doi.org/10.26378/rnlael1632476

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Vol. 16 No. 32 (2022): Issue 32

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Thematic section "Computer Learners Corpora..."

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