Referenciação em letras de samba-enredo: o objeto de discurso negro através das décadas

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Ricardo Pinheiro de
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6371
• topic: Referentiality; Referent; Análise do discurso; Samba-enredo; Referência (Linguística); Negros Identidade racial; Referenciação; Referente; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LINGUA PORTUGUESA

Based on the sociocognitive notion of language, text and discourse gender, as well as the process of referentiation (KOCH, 2009b, CORTEZ, 2003; TEDESCO, 2002, RONCARATI, 2010), the present research focuses at samba-enredo (or samba de enredo, a kind of musical poem to be sung during the Samba Schools Parade, in Brazil), which is one of the variations of samba, a musical rhythm brought by African black people from different nations during the slavery centuries in Brazil. We gathered a corpus containing 161 samba-enredo compositions (covering a period that starts in 1954 and ends in 2010). These texts have someone or something that belongs to the African or Afro-Brazilian world, or, at least, they should mention these issues. Thus, it is our aim to achieve three objectives throughout this research: a) to observe how the process of referentiation is unfolded, that is, how the referent negro (black), or any other semantically close word, is activated, reactivated or desactivated in 129 referential chains, which are a relevant linguistic and cognitive construct to the meaning of a text; b) to quantify the frequency of African and/or Afro-Brazilian issues in the selected lyrics; c) to observe how often a complex NP (noun phrase) is used to introduce a referential chain, so that an argumentative mood is impressed on the lexical selection carried out by the writers of the songs