subjectivity (the construal of a scene as detached or not from the conceptualizer) prominence (the focusing of attention on some aspects of a situation) mental spaces (packages of encyclopedic knowledge built and evoked in the current discourse) and inferences about the speaker’s intended meanings. First, we will characterize certain cognitive operations that play an important role in grammar and that make it an efficient conceptual structuring and communication system: construal (our ability to view, conceive and portray the same situation in alternate ways) objectivity vs. This study aims to highlight the relationship between grammar, cognition and society, identifying cognitive and social processes applied to grammatical constructions in Portuguese and their correlations.
