Vidas Secas: um enfoque sistêmico-funcional sob a perspectiva da avaliatividade

• Autor(a) principal: Gobbo, Giseli Aparecida
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• 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/13563
• topic: Metarrelações; Avaliatividade; Construção de emoção e de ética; Posicionamento do leitor; Metarelations; Appraisal; Construction of emotion and ethics; Positioning of the reader; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA::LINGUISTICA APLICADA

When reading Vidas Secas, our curiosity is aroused trying to understand why the book stirs our emotions so much. Otto Maria Carpeaux, in Origens e Fins (1943, p. 347), referring to Graciliano Ramos said: Surely the soul of this dry novelist is not dry, it is full of mercy and sympathy with all creatures, it is much wider than a philanthropic schoolmaster can imagine, it even covers up mute killer Casimiro Lopes, even dog Baleia, whose death touched me deeply. These words confirm the mastery of Graciliano Ramos with great sensitivity to reach the heart of the reader. In this regard, Alvaro Lins, in the afterword of this famous novel, says Although, pity that is not aroused directly, Graciliano Ramos leads it from his readers to his characters. Thus, in this research through the analysis of the linguistic resources used by him, we try to understand how this provocation of the readers to their characters is done, in a book that not only denounces the suffering of the people punished by drought, but also hoped to arouse the reader s empathy for the northeast. During the research, the contact with the ideas of Macken-Horarik (2003), who does research about semantic Appraisal presenting a frame to investigate, in narratives active responsive understanding of readers (2003, p. 286). She shows how language resources for the construction of emotion and ethics are arranged in a specific way to co-create complex meanings of higher order, or metarelations that put readers in relation to the characters in the course of a text. Thus, the objective of this research is to examine in the book Vidas Secas metarelations through Appraisal throughout the novel. Thus this research aims to answer to the following questions: (a) What is the role of Appraisal in which ethical values are transmitted, although not always specified in the text? (b) How are constructed metarelations based on Appraisal for readers, while they feel empathy for the characters, they also judge them ethically? The methodological analysis of critical approach, uses the Systemic Functional Language, and in particular the Appraisal Theory, which is an extension of the interpersonal metafunction in Systemic Functional Linguistics, and according to Martin (2000), we can deal with not only the explicit forms, but also implicit choices, over long stretches of a text