O espetáculo semiótico do Pastoril de Teixeira - PB: resgate da cultura tradicional através das cantigas de folguedo

Abstract

This paper’s aim was to perform a semiotic analysis of the “folguedo” chants which are a part of the popular romances from Paraíba. For this analysis, we will use for theoretical basis the Cultural Semiotic from French studies, especially the studies by Greimas and Courtés (1989) about the path of verbal and non-verbal sign’s meaning-making and Rastier’s about the Antropic Zones (2010). Our corpus has been built on the “folguedo” chants of Paraíba’s culture extracted from samples of the Pastoril presented on August 28th of 1993, in Semana Folclórica de Teixeira (Paraíba). Due to the amount of characters involved in this Pastoril, we’ve delimited our corpus to the analysis of the paths of the Master and the Foreman, representatives of the red and blue cords respectively, stressing the semiotic procedures of meaning-seeking, theming and figurative description of the multiple languages which compose each character: costumes, colors, dances. Through the Pastoril’s journeys, we sought to understand the public’s behavior in choosing the presented parties and accentuate the cultural traits around this tradition, situating them when in comes to the Antropic Zone in which they are inserted, whether they’re of identity, cultural proximity and distancing. Keywords: Semiotics;