Processos mentais em experienciação de desejos e construção de identidades em moradores de um distrito de Pernambuco

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate how desire is experienced in residents of the Tejucupapo district, located in Goiana, Pernambuco State. The aim was to understand what and how desires are constructed in the speech of these people, through the Mental Process want, and how identity aspects are revealed. This research is part of a master’s dissertation defended at Federal University of Pernambuco, in 2017. To make this cut, we take as basis the assumptions of Halliday e Matthiessen (2014) and Figueiredo (2011) about the Mental Processes, especially the so-called Desideratives, responsible for materializing the desires, as well as Bucholtz and Hall (2005), among others, to discuss the notion of identity. After transcribing the interviews, a mapping of occurrences of the Process want was performed. The analysis of the uses of this Process showed that the experienced desires point to a strong religiosity, considering the expressive number of occurrences to which God and Jesus were Sensers. We were also able to see how the research participants mark their identities through difference when they point out that other Tejucupapenses have different yearnings than their own. Finally, the analysis revealed optimism and hope as particular traits of these individuals.