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Science and the olympics: technology's increasing role in the games People used to rarely associate science with sports, but increased engineering research and investment in techno

Semântica e Significado de Vocábulos (Semantics)

IDECAN · 2012

Science and the olympics: technology's increasing role in the games

 

People used to rarely associate science with sports, but increased engineering research and investment in technology by professional sporting organizations have merged the two industries, especially in the 2012 London Olympics.

 

Scientists and engineers played a significant role in shaping the Great Britain Olympic team, according to BBC News. Though the partnership between sports and science has been a relatively new development, the impact of it can be seen across a number of different events.

 

Mobile technology, smartphones and tablet computers are found in droves at the London Olympics, as coaches, players and country officials can be seen using these devices to gauge and improve their performance.

 

According to the news outlet, the ease with which these devices can be integrated into sports has been surprising, but the results are hard to ignore.

 

(http://why.knovel.com/all-engineering-news/1752-science-and-the-olympics-technologys-increasing-role-in-the-games.html – Com adaptações.)

 

The conjunction highlighted in “Though the partnership between sports and science has been a relatively new development…” could be replaced, without change of meaning, by

  1. on top of.
  2. besides.
  3. thus.
  4. despite.
  5. yet.
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Despite expressa a ideia de concessão, ou seja, contraste entre duas informações — exatamente o mesmo valor semântico de though nesse contexto.

Gramaticalmente, though é uma conjunção que introduz uma oração. Para usar despite (que é preposição), é necessário transformar a oração em sintagma nominal ou usar um gerúndio, sem alterar o sentido.

Exemplos equivalentes: “Despite the partnership between sports and science being a relatively new development, the impact... ” ou “Despite being a relatively new development, the partnership... ”. Em ambos, a relação de concessão permanece.

Portanto, despite substitui though mantendo o mesmo sentido — desde que se ajuste a estrutura sintática para uma forma nominal ou gerundial.

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