The proverbial aphorization and the black people

Authors

  • Roberto Leiser Baronas

Keywords:

discourse, proverbial enunciations, hyperenunciator, part-quotations, aphoristic enunciation

Abstract

In this article, we take as object of reflection the proverbial enunciations about black people. We will get support in the French Discourse Analysis, specifically in the works by Dominique Maingueneau (2006a, 2006b, 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012) about proverbial enunciations, aphoristic enunciation and polyphony. Initially, we will use proverbs collected by Antonio Delicate as corpus. The proverbs were collected from his work called Adágios portugueses reduzidos a lugares comuns. Secondly, we will use the proverbs listed by Jose Perez in his book Provérbios Brasileiros, and, finally, we will analyze some paraphrases of the proverbs in the current media texts. Our main hypothesis is that those proverbs work by (re)taking the voice of a hyperenunciator, which has a sententious ethos and, by his saying and dictum, states the infamous character of the black people.

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Published

2016-04-04

How to Cite

Baronas, R. L. (2016). The proverbial aphorization and the black people. Estudos Linguísticos (São Paulo. 1978), 42(3), 1188–1197. Retrieved from https://revistas.gel.org.br/estudos-linguisticos/article/view/924

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Section

Análise do Discurso