Looking for produced meaning on literary discourse: a possible analysis by the Argumentative Theory of Polyphony

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2018.2.28637

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Argumentation, Polyphony, Meaning, Literary discourse.

Abstract

This paper aims to describe and explain the meaning expressed on literary discourse, based on the methodology proposed by the most current stage of the Theory of Argumentation within Language, namely: the Argumentative Theory of Polyphony. From the description of the argumentative content of the literary discourse Os ninguéns, by Eduardo Galeano, it searches to identify the speaker discursive attitude and the Enunciative Person. It pursuits to demonstrate the articulation of the language system entities (by the Theory of Semantic Blocks) with the verifiable concrete entities in the linguistic use effected by the speaker (by the Theory of Polyphony), since − considering the inseparability between langue and parole from the phenomenological point of view − according to what Marion Carel e Oswald Ducrot have defended in their current papers, it is necessary to study the semantic constitution of the discourse in order to effectively relate the point of view of the speech with the point of view of the language. Therefore, it is believed to achieve the discourse global meaning through the following triple unit: (1) by the discursive attitude; (2) by the Enunciative Person e (3) by the argumentative content.

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Lauro Gomes, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutorando em Letras (área de concentração: Linguística) pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Bolsista integral do CNPq.

Bárbara Luzia Covatti Malcorra, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutoranda em Letras (área de concentração: Linguística) pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Bolsista integral do CNPq.

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2018-07-19

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Gomes, L., & Malcorra, B. L. C. (2018). Looking for produced meaning on literary discourse: a possible analysis by the Argumentative Theory of Polyphony. Letrônica, 11(2), 144–154. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2018.2.28637

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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2018): Enunciation and Argumentation in Semantics

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