A referenciação e o mundo de nossos discursos: do sintagma nominal à construção das cadeias referenciais do texto escrito

Abstract

This thesis deals with an old issue: how does language refer the world? It presents a theoretical line that goes from reference to referenciation, from the referent to the object-of-the discourse. Thus, it deals with questions concerning vocabulary, semantics, syntax, pragmatics, cognition, in order to analyze aspects of textuality, noticeably referential cohesion, visiting, mainly, functionalist theories and Textual Linguistics. Aiming at putting into practice the theoretical questions raised, it proposes the reading and interpretation of literary and non literary texts, whose modes of organizing discourse vary from to argumentative, narrative, descriptive, expositive, injuntive. This reading and interpretation is carried through following the texts' referential chains and of the information flow of the text. Following the categorizations and recategorizations of the referential expressions (present in the nominals syntagmes), the introduction and reintroduction of discoursive topics allows one to analyze, in the author-reader relationship, how the construction of meanings and of the "world of our discourse" takes place