Representações sociais do cordel no dossiê de registro do IPHAN: uma análise textual-discursiva

Abstract

This research is related to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 19 – art, culture and communication, as it is based on the following issues: What are the social representations of Literatura do Cordel (Cordel Literature) constructed in the Registration Dossier promoted by the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN), published in 2018? How do the textual-discursive resources used in the construction of these representations develop or deconstruct culturally disseminated stereotypes about this sociocognitive cultural practice? Considering these guiding questions, we propose to investigate these representations in the Registration Dossier promoted by IPHAN. To this end, we present three specific aims: (i) to identify the processes of Inclusion and Exclusion of social actors in the Cordel’s Registration Dossier, published in 2018; (ii) to describe how cordel is framed in the Dossier through the use of selected linguistic-discursive resources for meaning development, which contribute to the recategorization (Mondada; Dubois, 2003) of cordel; and (iii) to explicitly analyze the predominant textual resources, that is, the linguistic and discursive mechanisms responsible for the representation of social actors, and cohesive chains (referential chains), considering the political and historical context of social representation practices of this literature, as well as the establishment of safeguarding bodies throughout history. From a theoretical and methodological perspective, this dissertation works with the concept of text as a constitutive form of knowledge (Antos; Wieser, 2015); the theory of referential processes (Mondada; Dubois, 2003), situated in the field of Text Linguistics, and the theory of social actor representation (Van Leeuwen, 2008), situated in the field of Critical Discourse Analysis. Our hypotheses are that the linguistic-discursive elements chosen to compose the textual architecture of the Dossier represent Cordel based on the interests of the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (IPHAN); and that the processes of recategorization, inclusion, and exclusion of social actors provide representations capable of guiding readers to specific conclusions about cordel. The results of this research highlights, among other issues: a) the tangible process is the most frequent in the analyzed fragments; b) cordel literature is the predominant social actor, organized in an active form; c) the discourse of the Dossier offers updated representations and legitimization for meanings about Cordel. These results allow us to affirm that the theory of referential processes, in a sociocognitive discursive approach, including referential expressions, provides impersonal authority to the statements, which implies the concealment of identities.