TRADUÇÃO E CONFLITO: CONSTRUÇÃO DE IDENTIDADES COLETIVAS E O USO DOS PRONOMES ‘NÓS’ E ‘ELES’ NO CORPUS PARALELO GRANDE SERTÃO: VEREDAS||THE DEVIL TO PAY IN THE BACKLANDS

Abstract

This monograph aims at presenting an analysis of the uses of the personal pronouns 'nós' and 'eles' in Brazilian Portuguese of the parallel fictional corpus Grande Sertão: Veredas by Guimarães Rosa and the personal pronouns ‘we’ and ‘they’ of the corpus The devil to pay in the backlands, by James L. Taylor and Harriet de Onís. The analysis focuses on the use of pronouns in the construction of situations of armed conflict and how language can be used to construct 'us versus them' opposition. This monograph draws on the explorations on previous research of Maia (1998) and Barbara and Gouveia (2004). Both of them analyze the use of personal pronouns. With respect to the construction of collective identities and conflict, this monograph establishes dialogues with Leudar, Marsland and Nekvapil (2004) and Bar-Tal (2011). The AntConc software was used for data collection. Among the findings, the predominance of ellipses of the pronouns in Portuguese can be highlighted. The findings show ellipsis of the pronoun 'nós' in 88.7% and explicit use of the some pronoun in 11.3% of the cases. Regarding the position of the explicit pronoun, it was found that 100% of the pronoun ‘nós’ and 73.7% of the pronoun ‘eles’ occurred before the verb. Considering the structure of the English language, we also highlight the explicit use of the pronouns 'we' and 'they'. In the construction of collective identities, the data do not corroborate our initial expectations of the monograph. The semantic prosodies are not unanimous in relation to negative prosody for the hostile group or positive prosody for allied groups.