Um grito parado no ar: a crypto-argumentação sob o enfoque da gramática sistêmico-funcional

• Autor(a) principal: Omaki, Debora Ruiz
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/13619
• topic: Peça teatral; Alegoria; Gramática sistêmico-funcional; Avaliatividade; Linguística crítica; Play; Allegory; Systemic functional grammar; Appraisal; Critical linguistics; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA

The aim of this research is to critically evaluate Gianfrancesco Guarnieri's play A Scream Holding in Mid-air ( Um grito parado no ar , 1973) in the light of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). The play centers in the efforts of a theater group of accomplishing its goal, and offering - as many critics point out - a portrayal of the isolation to which Brazilian society was confined to the sixties. In this research I tried to understand how the author could sketch this portrait, and relay a message that was against the ruling order. It should be noted that the text of A Scream Holding in Mid-air , does not contain, in the surface, a trope of figurative language, defined as a word or sentence to cause semantic tension; and there are no metaphors as understood in 'Metaphors We Live By'. In this context, I decided to go another way, the way of the allegory, of an "extended metaphor . An allegory is a rhetorical figure of speech that produces meaning by virtually conveying one or more meanings beyond the mere literal comprehension. This process has been called cryptoargumentation or secret argumentation, established through rhetorical devices that are employed at the interpersonal level as unobtrusive vehicles for conveying an argument at the level of 'the unsaid', the level of the underlying coherence of the text. It is in this level that the goal of Guarnieri's text lies. The research answers the following questions: (a) How are the allegories constructed in A Scream Holding in Mid-air ? (b) What are the lexico-grammatical choices made by the author in said constructions? The research is based on Critical Linguistics, interested in questioning the relationship between sign, meaning and the social-historical context, which govern the semiotic structure of discourse and attempts to relate the macro notion of ideology to the micro notions of discourses and social practices of members of a group, establishing links between the social and the individual, the macro and the micro, the social and the cognitive, thanks to the resources provided by the SFG. This theory, through the contributions it has received, allows dealing with implicit evaluations through tokens of attitude that include subjects as 'dog whistle' or the 'smuggling of information'