Para além do muro: uma análise enunciativa da atribuição de referência em cartas de Caio Fernando Abreu

Abstract

This monograph focuses on the reference issue from the enunciating perspective. Thus, it is also a study on subjectivity. It proposes that there is a deictic dimension within the process of reference creation on discourse, since the subject is implied in what she or he says. It is grounded on Benveniste’s and Bakhtin’s theories. From Benveniste’s contribution, it brings the idea that subjectivity is entailed whenever language is used. From Bakhtin’s contribution, it brings the concept according to which the subject that comes out through enunciation is built within live interaction with social voices. Taking as our research object the letters from Caio Fernando Abreu that talks about Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), it tries to describe, from linguistic materiality, the way how enunciator subjectivizes the experience of finding himself in the face of death. In order to reach this goal, our analyses are presented in two moments: in the first one, we try, in each letter, to establish the situation of