Estratégias argumentativas para a desconstrução do estereótipo do “Lobo Mau” na obra A verdadeira história dos três porquinhos, de Jon Scieszka

Abstract

By using language to establish interaction, we intend to achieve certain communicative objectives and, to obtain from the interlocutors, reactions aligned with these objectives, we use arguments that seek to convince the other about taking a position, from a point of view. Considering these perspectives, the present study is concerned to verify which argumentative strategies are used to convince the reader to deconstruct the “bad wolf” stereotype in Jon Scieszka's The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, which gives voice to the Wolf character, to address another position in relation to the original story of the classic children's literature The Three Little Pigs, by the Grimm brothers. Our theoretical support has as references Koch and Elias (2016), Amossy (2016), Cavalcante (2016), among others. As for the methodological procedures, we selected excerpts of the work, object of our study, and analyzed the constructions that mark the argumentative strategies used in the deconstruction of the wolf stereotype as a being that practices evil. Through the analysis it was possible to realize that the character uses argumentative sequences, lexical selections and recategorizations of referents as a mechanism to legitimize his arguments and convince the reader of his innocence.