Cartas chilenas, de Tomás Antônio Gonzaga: um estudo historiográfico dos recursos linguísticos e argumentativos

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Mendes, Maria de Fátima
• Orientador(a): Palma, Dieli Vesaro
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Língua Portuguesa
• Departamento: Língua Portuguesa
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Historiografia linguística; Contextualização; Imanência; Adequação; Gonzaga, Tomas Antonio > 1744-1809 ou 10 > Cartas chilenas > Critica e interpretacao
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Linguistic historiography; Contextualization; Immanence; Adequacy
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LINGUA PORTUGUESA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14641

This thesis belongs to the line of research History and Description of the Portuguese Language and focuses on the linguistic and argumentative resources used by Tomás Antônio Gonzaga, in his Cartas Chilenas, by means of a Linguistic Historiography, following the principles of contextualization, immanence and adequacy, proposed by Konrad Koerner (1996). Therefore, it is a study that addresses the arguments and figures of speech present in the poem gonzaguiano, to observe how these categories can move the passions in the listener, with the intention of alerting and becoming aware people from Minas Gerais state in the mid-eighteenth century with regard to the events. These elements are studied in light of the works of George Campbell and Luis Antônio Verney, philosophers of the eighteenth century. In this case, the principle of immanence is followed. The author s spirit of time is reconstructed, so the principle of contextualization is respected. For the modern reader s better understanding is presented the work Tratado da Argumentação: A Nova Retórica of Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca to demonstrated how these categories are seen nowadays. Thus, the principle of adequacy is also applied. The research aims to examine, based on the presuppositions of the Linguistic Historiography, the relation between the linguistic marks of the Cartas Chilenas and the Brazilian historical context of the eighteenth century, to identify the argumentative resources used by Tomás Antônio Gonzaga and to point the particularities of the argumentation and of the figures of speech, in the work, starting from Classic Rhetoric Considering the results, we can say that, in the analyzed work, Gonzaga looked for in the enlightenment ideals subsidies to write his poem denouncing the despotism in the eighteenth century in that Brazil was still controlled by Portugal. The comical and satirical aspect was also an argumentative strategy used by the poet in order to attack the corruption in Villa Rica due to governor Cunha Meneses s bad administration. For persuading the reader, the poet used the arguments of probability or verisimilitude; of plausibility; the importance of ideas; the proximity of time;f the connection of place; the relation of the persons and the interest in the consequences, as the figures climax, correction, vision, exclamation, apostrophe, question mark, antonomasia, synecdoche, metonymy, euphemism, antithesis, repetition and amplification. The study also shows that the Cartas Chilenas reflect the ideology of the time