Critical Consciouness of work and alienation in ‘O operário em construção’ (The worker in construction), by Vinicius de Moraes

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Davi Jefferson Araújo da
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Duarte, Mayara Benevenuto, Lima Arrais, Maria Nazareth de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Travessias (Cascavel. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/30777
• topic: Discursive semiotics; Poetic text; Operário em construção; Vinicius de Moraes; Semiótica discursiva; Texto poético; O operário em construção; Vinicius de Moraes

Due to the games with the language and with the meaning that it articulates, the poetic text presents various forms to carry out its reading. Starting from the idea that one of the means of reading this text can be exploring its semantic productivity, the first objective of this work is to accomplish a semiotic reading of the poem O operário em construção (The worker in construction) by Vinicius de Moraes with base on the discursive semiotics developed by A. J. Greimas, highlighting the critique of work and alienation relationships in the text. The reading of the poem follows the methodology of discourse semiotics analysis, that presents a generative path of meaning, composed of three levels: narrative, discursive and fundamental. Although centered on the discursive level, the reading also considers elements from other levels too, because these levels dialogue. Therefore, this work follows the reflections of Greimas and Courtés (2016) and followers, with regard to the discursive semiotics; and Marx (1989) and Mészáros (2016), concerning the Marxist critique of work and alienation. As a result, we verified that the operário (construction worker) actor, guided by a strong reflection on his working conditions, moves from a state of alienation to a state of resistance, of action. Thus, what was just one more construction worker becomes a operário (construction worker) in construction of critical and reflexive consciousness.