Argumentação e diálogo: por uma abordagem pragmático-discursiva das fábulas millorianas

Abstract

Considering that in language and through it the individual is constituted as subject, we developed this research, focusing on the interrelation we can establish between the process of argumentation, questioning about discourse, text genre and subjectivity. We sought to investigate in very peculiar fables, how the construction of arguments based on the dialogic model of the Argumentation Theory of Christian Plantin (1996, 2008) takes place, and set out from the hypothesis that the arguments in the fable studied builds itself especially through strategies used by the narrator, instantiated by a subject/author, which allow it to take different argumentative roles according to its level of involvement in the argument. We also believe that, according to the Plantinian theory, the narrator assumes such roles in order to assess the narrated world as an argumentative resource, in a movement toward the reader, that the inclusion of these reviews give the fable considered a particular form of organization, that the subjectivity is established greatly through the use of interposition - privileged form of the intervention of the subject in the construction of its sayings. The projection of the narrator in the analyzed fables constitutes forms of interaction and communication between him/her and the interlocutor, which led our research to an analysis that searches for the semiotics of textual interaction, from which one can infer that the meaning constructed in a text, for a single discourse, does not derive from the system, but from the activities of the use of this system, and from its possibilities of elaboration of meanings, dialogically and socially shared by the interlocutors. The research corpus is composed of one hundred of Millor Fernandes fables, current forms of the fable gender, which were qualitatively analyzed, from the instrumentals provided by the Theory of Assessment of Martin & White (2005), more specifically the engagement subsystem in search of a pragmatic-discursive approach. We believe that the argumentative process we are dealing with in the Millorian fables - that display a speech and a counter speech- actually happens when the resource of interposition is used by the narrator to project himself in the text, and it allows him to take different argumentative roles, according to his engagement in argumentative game. This engagement happens in a continuum, in a context of greater or lesser dialogic expansion, greatly because we identified numerous instances in which these roles overlap or intertwine.