Um Viés da discriminação e desigualdade social em olhos dágua: representações metafóricas sob a ótica da linguística sistêmico funcional

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation, which takes an interdisciplinary approach to the confluence of the fields of linguistics and literature, thus making a linguistic analysis of the microstructure of the text of the work Olhos d'água, is to recognize the textual macrostructure related to ideological postures, via metaphor, obtained from the lexical choices found in the microstructure of the text. This recog-nition is demonstrated through evaluative semantics, a branch of Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL), known as Appraisal. Readers are sensitive to evaluative meaning complexes and the ways in which they confirm, oppose or transform word choices elsewhere in the text. Concomitantly, meta-phors, in this sense, alongside metonymies, support the examination of discrimination, racism, and inequality in the short stories in the collection. SFL is a theoretical-methodological proposal that makes it possible to relate the microstructure of the lexicogrammatical choices of the text and the macrostructure of power relations and discourse ideology and will be one of the methodologies adopted in the analyses. The investigation should answer the following questions: (a) what gram-matical choices demonstrate racism, discrimination, and inequality? (b) what role do Appraisal and metaphor play in this process? As a preliminary result, it could be noted that the short stories show, through lexicogrammatical choices, problems such as racial discrimination, and from these choices, conceptual metaphors such as BEING BLACK IS GUILT can be inferred.