The reading of literary texts: a semiotic approach
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Resumo: | Communicative practices involve, in general, the simultaneous action of symbols, indices and icons. The semiosis of a literary text is not different, so it is virtually impossible to isolate a text which is purely symbolic, indexical or iconic. However, it is possible to identify contexts in which one of these modes of representation appears more strongly, and so becomes crucial to reveal the effects which the author wants to emphasize. The aim of this paper is to describe some situations in which the emphasis in each of these three modes determines our perception of specific meanings in poems and narratives. To this end, we use Peirce’s Theory of Signs, specifically his second thrichotomy, which deals with the relations between signs and their objects. These concepts are taken here in their theoretical sense, then they are applied to the specific context of literary texts, while we read some works by renowned authors in Brazilian literature as Manuel Bandeira, João Guimarães Rosa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and João Cabral de Melo Neto. More than summarizing a classification framework, we aim to demonstrate that understanding the symbolic, indexical and iconic devices in these texts requires different cognitive strategies of the literary phenomenon. |
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The reading of literary texts: a semiotic approachA leitura do texto literário: uma abordagem semióticaCommunicative practices involve, in general, the simultaneous action of symbols, indices and icons. The semiosis of a literary text is not different, so it is virtually impossible to isolate a text which is purely symbolic, indexical or iconic. However, it is possible to identify contexts in which one of these modes of representation appears more strongly, and so becomes crucial to reveal the effects which the author wants to emphasize. The aim of this paper is to describe some situations in which the emphasis in each of these three modes determines our perception of specific meanings in poems and narratives. To this end, we use Peirce’s Theory of Signs, specifically his second thrichotomy, which deals with the relations between signs and their objects. These concepts are taken here in their theoretical sense, then they are applied to the specific context of literary texts, while we read some works by renowned authors in Brazilian literature as Manuel Bandeira, João Guimarães Rosa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and João Cabral de Melo Neto. More than summarizing a classification framework, we aim to demonstrate that understanding the symbolic, indexical and iconic devices in these texts requires different cognitive strategies of the literary phenomenon.As situações práticas de comunicação envolvem, em geral, a atuação simultânea de símbolos, índices e ícones. A semiose de um texto literário não é diferente, o que torna praticamente impossível isolarmos um texto puramente simbólico, indexical ou icônico. Podemos, todavia, identificar contextos em que um desses modos de representar sobressai aos demais, tornando-se determinante para a compreensão dos efeitos expressivos que o texto busca ressaltar. O objetivo deste artigo é descrever situações de leitura nas quais a ênfase em cada uma dessas três formas de representação determina a apreensão de sentidos específicos nos poemas e narrativas examinados. Com essa finalidade, valemo-nos do aporte teórico proveniente da Teoria Geral dos Signos, cuja base é o pensamento do filósofo norte-americano Charles Sanders Peirce, do qual destacamos a segunda tricotomia dos signos, centrada nas relações possíveis entre as representações e seus objetos. Os conceitos são retomados inicialmente em seu sentido teórico geral para, em seguida, serem aplicados ao contexto específico da linguagem literária, a partir de comentários sobre poemas e narrativas de autores representativos da literatura brasileira, como Manuel Bandeira, João Guimarães Rosa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade e João Cabral de Melo Neto, entre outros. Mais do que traçar um esquema de classificações, as leituras propostas pretendem demonstrar como a apreensão dos componentes simbólicos, indexicais e icônicos presentes nos textos examinados implicam diferentes estratégias de cognição do fenômeno literário.Edunisc2012-01-04info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signo/article/view/283810.17058/signo.v37i62.2838Signo; v. 37 n. 62 (2012): V Colóquio Leitura e Cognição; 64-801982-2014reponame:Signo (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online)instname:Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC)instacron:UNISCporhttps://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signo/article/view/2838/1944Júnior, Expedito Ferrazinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2018-07-26T18:01:25Zoai:ojs.online.unisc.br:article/2838Revistahttp://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signohttp://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/signo/oairgabriel@unisc.br||revistasigno.unisc@gmail.com1982-20140101-1812opendoar:2018-07-26T18:01:25Signo (Santa Cruz do Sul. Online) - Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC)false |
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The reading of literary texts: a semiotic approach A leitura do texto literário: uma abordagem semiótica |
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Communicative practices involve, in general, the simultaneous action of symbols, indices and icons. The semiosis of a literary text is not different, so it is virtually impossible to isolate a text which is purely symbolic, indexical or iconic. However, it is possible to identify contexts in which one of these modes of representation appears more strongly, and so becomes crucial to reveal the effects which the author wants to emphasize. The aim of this paper is to describe some situations in which the emphasis in each of these three modes determines our perception of specific meanings in poems and narratives. To this end, we use Peirce’s Theory of Signs, specifically his second thrichotomy, which deals with the relations between signs and their objects. These concepts are taken here in their theoretical sense, then they are applied to the specific context of literary texts, while we read some works by renowned authors in Brazilian literature as Manuel Bandeira, João Guimarães Rosa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and João Cabral de Melo Neto. More than summarizing a classification framework, we aim to demonstrate that understanding the symbolic, indexical and iconic devices in these texts requires different cognitive strategies of the literary phenomenon. |
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