The meaning construction process in narratives: a constructional analisys based in frames in "O Pequeno Príncipe"
Linguistics Semantcs
Meaning Construction
Frame
Narrative
O Pequeno Príncipe
This paper aims to investigates the process of construction of moral frame in "The Little Prince", by Saint-exupéry. For that, we characterize the frames involved in the process of construction of sense of the work under analysis and take for base the theoretical presuppositions Cognitive Linguistics. In harmony with this perspective, we use the notions of categorização, corporality, frames and imagetics schemes. We believe that the senses construction in narratives is associated to the activation of frames and the realization of projections and metaphorical mapping for the reader. These considerations were obtained from the preliminary analysis of the data work from The Little Prince (EXUPÉRY, 2009). The study of the corpus is of qualitative nature and descriptive character, once that the informations obtained cannot be quantifying and the data are analysed inductively by the investigator. Besides presenting considerations on the activation of cognitive structures for understanding the processes that are involved in the senses of construction in narratives, we propose, in this work, the application of a construcional analysis model of the speech (DUQUE, 2015), proposal which, thought in terms of possible perspectives to be adopted in an analysis of the speech based in frames.