Use In Brazilian Portuguese Research Articles

Freqüência e uso de estrangeirismos ingleses no português brasileiro: Um estudo baseado em corpus

Neste trabalho, apresentamos uma investigação baseada em corpora acerca da extensão do uso de estrangeirismos de origem inglesa no português do Brasil. Para tanto, utilizamos o corpus Banco de Português, do projeto DIRECT (LAEL, PUCSP), com mais de 230 milhões de palavras, de fontes orais e escritas, e o British National Corpus, com cerca de 100 milhões de palavras, também provenientes da escrita e fala. A investigação motiva-se (1) pela necessidade do envolvimento dos lingüistas e lingüistas aplicados em debates acerca de políticas públicas, (2) por ser esse um tema caro ao prof. John Robert Schmitz, e (3) pela escassez de trabalhos sobre estrangeirismos que utilizem corpora eletrônicos. Os resultados indicam que (1) há muitos anglicismos em vigor no português brasileiro, (2) a freqüência deles é baixa e (3) eles parecem adquirir sentidos e usos diferentes da língua de origem.

Punctuation in English & Portuguese Translations: When Every Point Counts

This is an investigate study on the frequency of punctuation use in Brazilian Portuguese and American English translations. Six textual pairs were selected, each representing a particular genre of translation. Punctuation was divided into two contrasting categories. Under terminal punctuation were placed marks which came at the end of sentences and caused the next word to be capitalized. Under internal punctuation were included marks which appeared within the sentence limits. 1692 marks in 622 sentences were carefully tabulated and constituted the corpus of this project. Results indicated that Portuguese texts were considerably more populated by various punctuation marks than their English counterparts. Frequent rhetorical pauses, tolerance towards longer and more complex sentences, and occasional use of double punctuation invited a higher ratio of marks per sentece in the Portuguese texts. In the last part of the paper, a number of conventions governing punctuation usage in the two languages are discussed, providing a direct application to the training of translators and students of foreign language composition and rhetoric.

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Introduction. Fatigue is an important clinical finding in the hepatitis virus chronic infection. However, the absence of scales to measure fatigue, translated and validated for Brazilian Portuguese, prevents access to information essential in clarifying specific clinical conditions in this population.Aim. The aim of this study was to determine the psychometric properties of the fatigue impact scale for daily use (D-FIS), in Brazilian Portuguese, for patients with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) chronic infection.Material and methods. In this cross-sectional study, the authors evaluated the D-FIS in 101 outpatients, followed at the reference hospital. The Mini International Neuropsychiatry Interview Brazilian (MINI PLUS) was used to identify psychiatric disorders, and the Short Form Health Survey 36-item (SF-36) to evaluate the self-reported quality of life. We also examined the impact of fatigue on the quality of life of this group of patients.Results. Relevant psychometric D-FIS results were: floor effect proved to be 1%; skewness was 0.46; item homogeneity was 0.59 and SEM (SD = 8.51) was 2.4. The Cronbach’s alpha was 0.920 and item-total correlation yielded coefficients ranging from 0.65 (item 1) to 0.85 (item 3). In a linear regression model, fatigue and depression influenced the self-reported quality of life.Conclusion. This study presents that the fatigue scale for daily use in Brazilian Portuguese can be considered a useful tool to verify the presence of fatigue in patients with the hepatitis viruses B and C.