Posicionamento na interlingua(gem): processos de constituição do código de linguagem do Movimento Tropicalista

Abstract

Under the theoretical perspective of Discourse Analysis (DA), mainly from the theoretical notions proposed by Dominique Maingueneau in Literary Discourse (2006) and Genesis of Discourses (2008), in the present dissertation, we analyze aspects of the discursive practice of the movement known in the Brazilian artistic field as Tropicália. From the exploration of non-verbal semioses, we set the main objective of this work as to extend the notion of positioning in interlingua – postulated by Maingueneau to deal with verbal texts – to other semioses, postulating the notion of positioning in interlanguage and coining the term. The development of this dissertation is justified on the basis of two central claims: i) the notion of interlingua has been little explored in the field of DA in Brazil, therefore requiring an expansion of research in this regard; ii) Maingueneau postulates the notion of positioning in interlingua via a corpus of analysis of Western literature, especially the French one, between the 16th and 20th centuries, restricting his work to the analysis of verbal texts. Thus, it would be an important contribution to the field of DA to demonstrate the functioning of this phenomenon in a corpus of intersemiotic nature. In addition, we can also justify the choice of our corpus of analysis considering that the Tropicalist Movement is characterized by an intense aesthetic work, mainly by encompassing in its productions a set of genres and productions that go beyond the limits of verbal language – such as songs, album covers, the way the artists dress, etc. –, so the analysis of the discursive practices of this movement has proved to be very productive for the purpose of this research. As regarding the methodology, we base our analysis on the theoretical-methodological assumptions that Dominique Maingueneau presents: i) in Genesis of Discourses (2008), according to who the analyst must treat his data from a set of texts and hypotheses related to their modes of historical inscription; ii) in Literary Discourse (2006), which proposal is to treat the literary object as an enunciative event, moving away from the traditional perspective that is concerned with looking at the literary text as a reflection of the context or vice versa. The central question that arises from this research can be formulated as follows: to what extent can the extension of the notion of positioning in interlingua, postulated by Dominique Maingueneau for the analysis of verbal texts, be productive for the analysis of non-verbal texts? In other words, when considering texts of a non-verbal nature, what is the productivity in postulating the notion of positioning in interlanguage? Or still: the subjects linked to the discursive practice of an artistic-cultural movement, with productions in several semioses (and intersemiotics), register and position themselves in relation to which file, of what nature, with what functioning? Regarding the impact of the present dissertation, the contribution to the theoretical-methodological framework of Discourse Analysis stands out, considering that the extension of the notion of positioning in interlingua, for positioning in interlanguage, establishes for the research community a specific analytical device to deal with non-verbal corpora of more institutionalized discourses. In addition, we believe that the analysis of a corpus cut from the practices of Tropicália, from a new theoretical and methodological point of view, can shed light on the movement, since the approaches of a discursive nature allows for a better understanding of aspects of the functioning of social events that would otherwise go unnoticed by purely historical and/or sociological approaches.