A Narrativa no jogo eletrônico The Last Of Us: Uma relação entre narrativa ambiental e a segunda tricotomia peirceana

Abstract

This dissertation aims at an analysis of the narrative of the electronic game The Last of Us, released for Playstation consoles by the developer, Naughty Dog, in 2013. Through the second Peircean trichotomy (sign in relation to the object), which presents the concepts of icon, index and symbol, and proposed by the Semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce, it is intended to analyze the narrative, relating it to the Environmental Storytelling idealized by the author Henry Jenkins. Through analyzing and describing the ways in which the Peircean trichotomy can be related to the environmental narrative, a new way is proposed to categorize the environmental narrative present in the corpus by the so-called “transitional trichotomy”, a model with its own categories that classifies the environmental narrative according to the levels of information obtained through the environments of an electronic game. This research can contribute to the production of the line of research to which it is linked: Linguistics and Transculturality of the PPG of Letters at UFGD and with other studies in the field of electronic games and, mainly, reveal more about the environmental narrative proposed by the author, a seldom studied subject in the country, when relating it to Peircean trichotomies. It is a qualitative research, in which, through intensive direct observation, the author assumes the role of player, when controlling the character of the game, to observe and analyze the different environments and narrative.