O estudo da dêixis no gênero carta literária

Abstract

Concerning the phenomenon of referenciation, Cavalcante, Custódio Filho e Brito (2014) categorize referential processes into reference input, anaphora and deixis. In this work, for the purposes of a more productive research we delimit our analysis to study deixis. Thus, the aim of this research is to verify the occurrence of personal, social, spatial, temporal, textual and memory deixis (CAVALCANTE; CUSTÓDIO FILHO; BRITO, 2014), in the genre literary letter. Therefore, we selected a corpus made up of six (06) literary letters directed to children and youth, from a book entitled “Felpo Filva” by Furnari (2006). We follow the concepts of Cavalcante, Custódio Filho and Brito (2014), with regard to the study of deixis. We found out that there is the occurrence of personal, social, textual and memory deixis in the test sample. However, we did not detect the occurrence of spatial or temporal deixis, although they are expressed in the letters, the place and date of enunciation.