Uma investigação Sistêmico-Funcional das representações de Masculino e de Feminino a partir do Sistema de Transitividade

Abstract

This research clarifies a systemic-functional investigation that sought representations of Female and Male in the biographical text “O Castelo de Papel”, authored by Mary del Priore (2013), with the aim of verifying the occurrence or not of linguistically woven asymmetries between genders. In this sense, the work was examined from its lexicogramatical base, such reading being undertaken through the lenses of the Transity System, whose central categories were the Participants, the Processes and the Circumstances, elements of the Experimental Ideational Metafunction. Based on the seminal studies of Halliday (2002), having among his interpreters Souza (2006), the construction of the public and private life of the Casal Imperial was investigated, with attention to aspects of the genre biography and the inseparable relationship between authorship and characters, in light of the narrative product being a partial and ideological construction of reality, according to the author’s points of view. To do so, we extracted from the work all the occurrences of Processes in which the characters Isabel and Gastão occupy the role of Participant 1, such extracts being the corpus of the work. That done, the tabulation and the examination of the data erected a qualitative-quantitative assessment, which was made explicit in the argument of each occurrence, as well as in the volumetric assessment of cases, as the authorship orchestrated its characters, bringing up gender representations in its text. , either as a historical record or as an update of these positions in space-time. Finally, the study identified the perpetuation of the masculine social structures of privilege over the feminine.