A leitura da palavra e a palavra na leitura : plasticidade e sentido

Abstract

Based on the concepts postulated by Bakhtin and his Circle (BAKHTIN/ VOLOCHIÍOV, 1929/2010; Bakhtin, 1975/1998, 1979/2011), who understand the word as a polysemic and plurivocal element of the language, this thesis studies the word´s plasticity in order to understand the discursive functioning of the language and, consequently, how the construction of meaning in different discursive genres is made. It is understood that in each and every statement that is being out of communication among individuals, there is an interaction of several voices, wherein the comprehension of a speech leads to another and so forth. It is the analysis of this web of voices, pervaded by the word, that allows one to reach the senses in circulation in the speech. That is, for the understanding of an utterance, it is necessary to observe the voices under interaction in the verbal material, which underline the multi linguistic and dialogical nature of language. The research comprises that the plasticity of the word and the resulting printed mobility it promotes to the genres is subject to various discursive aspects such as shape, enunciation situation (who speaks? To whom? About what? Which enunciation project does it make use of as a basis?), production context, otherness, intonation, reflection / refraction.Thus, this work´s main objective is to analyze aspects that provide word´s plasticity in different genres, and to check the evocation of different valuations and discursive voices that give a meaning to the words, and, consequently to the speech. In order to achieve the overall goal, the following specific objectives are considered: (a) observe how the construction of meaning is based in the plasticity of words; (b) investigate how the words, through different social voices that permeate them, reveal value appreciation and views; (c) check how the words and their meanings resume dialogical relations previously established - reflection -. while concomitantly, lead to new directions - refraction. As for the analysis, genres strip, jokes and records. The strips were removed from the collection of strips produced by the Argentine Quino, entitled All Mafalda. The jokes were taken from an electronic site, called PIADAS.COM.BR. The records were collected from the physical selection process for IFRS substitute teacher - Campus Rio Grande. Regarding the analysis methodology, there was, at first, an individual analysis of each gender considering the discursive function of words, which reflect and refract ideologies and viewpoints, conditioned by various discursive aspects. Soon after, a constitutive dialogical orientation of the analyzed genres took place in order to check the idea that plasticity may be printed by the word, and cross all genres, including those considered more coercive.Therefore, the word is considered in this work as an utterance, endowed with a meaningful intonation as in every enunciation new value guidelines are produced by social and historically situated subjects. This perspective also justifies the thesis guided by this work that the language is plastic because the word is plastic. That is, it is the word, that when expressed by an individual, gets impregnated with expressiveness and gives plasticity to the language.