Signum: Estudos da Linguagem (Dec 2015)
GENETIC RITES: A DISCURSIVE APPROACH TO LITERARY TEXT AND ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE THEORY OF DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Abstract
In this paper a double objective is pursued: on the one hand, to evaluate the productivity of the concept of genetic rites (MAINGUENEAU, 2008) in the analysis of literary texts; on the other hand, to explicit the contributions of the analysis of literary texts to a redefinition of the very theoretical framework of discourse analysis. This dual path will be followed in the context of global semantics proposed by Maingueneau (2008).In the development of our reflections, the concept of genetic rites is brought forward in various literary productions of different periods of our cultural history, so that we will be able to apprehend it in the specificity of production of sense in artistic writing, and also to survey some of its modes of insertion in the universe of fictional construction, within a metalinguistic movement typical of literature. Among the achieved results we highlight the relevance of the analysis of genetic rites for the consolidation of the concept of discursive practice and the centrality of literary text in producing a memory establishing forms of enunciability involved with the very constitution of language.
