A tríade do Ethos na construção semiolinguística do discurso na obra Capitães da Areia

Abstract

This work aims to investigate the Ethos triad in the semiolinguistic construction of the speech of the characters in the work Capitães da Areia". It presents analytical questions about the Ethos triad in speech from a semiolinguistic perspective. The Semiolinguistic Theory (ST) begins to gain ground by The Linguist Frenchman Patrick Charaudeau (2005), who was interested in analyzing discourse from a social perspective. To this end, the basis of the theory is developed in the process of semiotization of the world; which takes into account: the subjects' worldview, knowledge, places of belonging, communicative devices, etc. To this end, it is believed that in the discourse of the work Capitães da Areia, the triad Ethos, Pathos and Logos emerges, which means, respectively: What is shown, affection/sentimentality and argumentation/persuasion (Amossy, 2008) are part of the process of semiotization of the world constructed in the narrative. Methodologically, a semiolinguistic analysis: “consists of relating certain issues that deal with the phenomenon of language – some more external (logic of actions and social influence), others more internal (construction of meaning and construction of the text)” (Charaudeau, 2005, p. 13). Given this, the author's speech was first taken into consideration as a speaker present in a fictitious situation and not as a source subject of the utterance. In this case, what is “shown” was analyzed, that is: the image that the work and, together, the characters, reflect to the reader through the testimony. That said, for the semiolinguistic construction of the discourse in the work Capitães da sand, there is the persuasive use of the triad: ethos, phatos and logos