Subjetividade em lendas indígenas potiguara: o uso de modalizadores discursivo

Abstract

The legend is a discursive or textual genre quite frequent in schools and indigenous communities and has worked not only as a didactic tool. Recognizing the importance of this genre for these communities, this course completion work aims to analyze the linguistic-discursive characteristics of indigenous legends of the Potiguara people of Paraíba, focusing on their argumentative aspects. For this, it is based on studies on discursive or textual genres, based on authors such as Bakhtin (2003), Bazerman (2006), Marcuschi (2008), among other scholars. It is also based on the conception of linguistic argumentation by Ducrot (1987, 1988) and collaborators and on studies on discursive modalization, from Castilho e Castilho (1993), Fiorin (2000), Nascimento (2009) and Nascimento e Silva ( 2012). The research is qualitative in nature and descriptive and analytical, and has as its corpus three indigenous legends of the Potiguara people, namely: Cumadre Fulozinha, Lobisomem, Mãe D’água. The performed analysis mapped different modals in the texts, especially the epistemic assertive ones, imprinting a notion of certainty or truth; the deontics of obligatoriness and prohibition, presenting guidelines both to the interlocutor and to third parties; the delimiters, expressing delimitations in the content of the said; and evaluative ones, generally used to express positive or negative axiological positions regarding the entities and other characters involved in the narrative. Based on the analysis, it is postulated the possibility that the epistemic assertives, the deontics of obligatoriness and the evaluative ones constitute elements of the verbal style of the genre.