Claudia Castro

This article offers an analysis of the Spanish derivative morphology potential for graduating attitudinal meanings regarding the expression of political crisis and of contested meanings of human rights violations in the discourse of recent Chilean History. This study is framed in the typological principles of Systemic Functional Linguistics and in the appraisal system, particularly in the sub-system of graduation. The analysis demonstrates on one hand the productive role of the suffixes -ada and -azo when graduating attitudinal meanings regarding the expression of social and political crisis in the discourse of history. These suffixes can graduate at the rank of the morpheme, word and group and also be involved in an inter-stratal tension that is functioning as an experiential grammatical metaphor that works in combination with a lexical metaphor intensifying time and events in an incongruent manner. On the other hand, the analysis shows that when dealing with traumatic and argued meanings of state terror, extreme degree suffixes -ísimo/a/s play a critical role in the intensification of qualities and in the quantification as amount and extent in a congruent manner. Spanish suffixes can graduate by sub-modification in the lower rank of a word structure instead of at the group structure contributing to the building of constellation of patterns of evoked and inscribed interpersonal meanings in the discourse.

Este artigo tem como objetivo mostrar como a ação – e o discurso, como estando intimamente ligado à aquela –, conceito fundamental na filosofia de Hannah Arendt, se apresenta como um critério indispensável para o movimento empreendido pelos homens de saída de um lugar privado, para um espaço público, e, por conseguinte, do aparecimento no mundo humano, revelando, assim, não só os seus corpos biológicos, mas os aspectos plurais de seres únicos. Pretende-se, portanto, expor a ascensão humana de um contexto particular para o público, frente ao desvelamento do “quem”, tendo em vista as características advindas da pluralidade. Para isso, teremos em perspectiva primeira o capítulo V de “A Condição Humana”, onde Hannah Arendt apresentou de maneira mais detida os conceitos que aqui nos ocuparemos.