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The feminine figure and its discourse representations in texts from the newspaper O PORVIR (Currais Novos / Rio Grande do Norte – 1926 / 1929)
Text analysis. Discourse representation. Semantic level. Feminine figure. O PORVIR newspaper.
This thesis presents a study whose object consists of discourse representations. Its general objective is to examine discourse representations of the feminine figure in texts from the newspaper O PORVIR (1926 / 1929). From a theoretical perspective, it is grounded on Text Linguistics – LT (MARCUSCHI, 2008, 2012), and, in a general view, on the Discourse Text Analysis – ATD in Portuguese (ADAM, 2011; 2015), focusing on the notion of discourse representation (ADAM, 2011; GRIZE, 1990; 1996; 1997). The methodology consists of a documental research of mixed methods, along with a concurrent investigation strategy (CRESWELL; PLANO CLARK, 2007; CRESWELL, 2010). The corpus has been composed of 39 texts, selected from the newspaper O PORVIR (1926 / 1929). For the analysis of the discourse representations of the feminine figure, certain specific categories have been applied, such as: referentiation, referentiation modification, predication, predication modification, spatial localization, temporal localization, analogy and connection (ADAM, 2011; GRIZE, 1990; 1996; 1997; RODRIGUES; PASSEGGI; SILVA NETO, 2010). The feminine figure is an essential agent in the subjects regarded within the texts from the newspaper O PORVIR (1926 / 1929). Results point towards complex discourse representations, which establish different semantic roles. The more expressive ones refer to family routines, connected to domestic spaces. The whole of the applied categories of analysis, that being referentiations, predications, their modifiers and further spatial localizations, have all contributed in a more specific manner towards the construction of such representations.