Ícones e índices na superfície textual

Abstract

Using the theoretical framework of iconicity (Peirce), the objective of this paper is to analyze the relation between verbal meaning and experience representation in written texts. A semiotical and semantical survey is the strategy to select types of signs and communicative potential of words in which G. Rosa structures his narrative named Meu tio o Iauaretê. This analysis proposal aims, on one hand, to show the significative power — directing or not-directing — of the lexical unities in action in a text, and, in the other hand, to stimulate teachers and students towards literary text reading as a manner of increasing the reader's vocabulary and verbal expression.