Referenciação e multimodalidade: revistando os processos de recategorização e encapsulamento

Abstract

Nowadays, the interest in the approach of multimodal texts has been increased in the area of Text Linguistics (LT) practiced in the Brazil, considering that in this research area, since its beginnings, it has almost always given priority to the treatment of verbal language manifested through oral and written texts, configuring what Custódio Filho (2011) calls the “verbocentrism” practiced by LT. In this context, we present some reflections from studies that we develop on the application of LT analysis categories to the verbal-imagistic texts, particularly regarding referenciation activity. These studies deal specifically with the recategorization and encapsulation processes, whose preliminary results have confirmed the validation of the hypothesis based on the existence of two categories which we call imagect recategorization and encapsulation. Therefore, we present analysis of seven copies of verbal-imagistic texts to describe the configuration of these categories. We believe that our proposition still demands an extension of definitions has already been stabilized of the recategorization and encapsulation processes in the context of LT, in order to contemplate the most diversified language uses.