As marcas de oralidade como recurso estilístico nas crônicas de Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos

Abstract

The journalistic chronicle is a hybrid text once it oscillates between the literary subjectivity and objectivity of journalism. It is born from everyday facts, is linked to speech and to interaction and it is built in a style that simulates naturalness. Considering a text of this nature, in which way can we dissociate the marks of orality as constituents of the compositional construction of the genre from the orality marks used as a stylistic feature of the chronicler? Seeking to answer this question, we made use of Stylistics and the correlate studies of orality and writing, being guided, primarily, by the ideas of Marcel Cressot, Nilce Sant Anna Martins, Norma Discini, José Lemos Monteiro, Claudio Cezar Henriques, Sírio Possenti, Dino Preti, Hudinilson Urbano, Luiz Antônio Marcuschi, Ingedore Villaça Koch e Eni P. Orlandi, among others. In addition, we studied the journalistic language from the perspective of Patrick Charaudeau's Semiolinguistics. The corpus used to this theoretical study was based on the journalistic chronicles of Joaquim Ferreira dos Santos, whose texts mostly turn to the influence of spoken mode of language found in the daily life of readers, which demonstrates his concern with the language. The adopted language perspective herein is the social-interactionist one, in connection with Mikhail Bakhtin s ideas, and we hold the view that the marks of orality in Joaquim s journalistic chronicles configure themselves as a strategic resource to produce an effect of meaning intended by the author in a given context