A ironia pragmática em "A hora da estrela"

Abstract

This article applies Literary Pragmatic’s concepts to the text “A hora da estrela” with a view to analyse the speech strategies employed by Clarice Lispector to compose the implicit and ironic reader of her texts. The analyses started from the theoretical references relative to Literary Pragmatic, which terminology was established by Dominique Maingueneau, and was amplified by Graciela Reyes in literary texts approaches. Besides, the work also deals with appropriations related to the Linguistic Pragmatic, as Grice’s Maximums Theory, for instance. Another relevant aspect discussed here is the question about “embreantes” and the literary interpretation originated from the use of these elements. Finally, the study aims at determining Mikhail Bakhtin’s polyphony – in order to unfold of the interpretation of the corpus – as the main strategy to the configuration of the Clarice Lispector’s reader. The pragmatic irony, especially, was the most examined aspect, due to the fact that it constitutes the main strategy in the chosen literary composition.