The discourse-Cognitive process of the meaning construction: a frame-based-aproach in O Pequeno Príncipe (The little prince)
Sense production;Frames;Narrative;The little Prince;
This work aims to investigate the process of moral frame sense production in The little Prince (EXUPÉRY, 2009). To this, it characterizes cognitive-discursive mechanisms in the process of sense production in this work having as base Embodied Cognitive Linguistic theoretical approach. In this perspective, it raises some of issues of categorization (LAKOFF, 1987), corporality (LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 1999), and two analytical categories: frames (GALLESE; LAKOFF, 2005; LAKOFF, 2006; FILLMORE, 1976; DUQUE, 2015) and moral metaphors (LAKOFF, 2008). The data study is qualitative and descriptive in its base, due to the nature of information that cannot be quantitative data is inductive. In this sense, this study indicates the moral frame building is because frames activation and little metaphoric maps and projections, that helps reader to the sense production. This results come from data analyze of the work. In addition to this, it presents some considerations related to the activation of cognitive structures in the process understanding that emerge from sense production in narratives. This research proposes application of a discourse analyze model based on frames according to Duque (2015), linked to possible perspectives from a cognitive-discursive analyze based on frames. This study aims to contribute to the Cognitive Linguistic and to the narrative studies.