Este trabalho investiga as práticas discursivas de sessões de terapia de família de abordagem sistêmica. Enfoca a (re)construção dos sentidos desse discurso terapêutico, voltando-se para o que se convenciona chamar, dentro da área terapêutica, por re-significação e procurando olhar criticamente o pedido de ajuda do paciente e o ato de dar ajuda do terapeuta. Investigam-se também os lugares sociais/familiares dos sujeitos - aí incluída uma certa representação do terapeuta - quando em interação terapêutica. Partindo da noção de dialogismo proposta por Bakhtin e revisitada pelos estudos sobre a(s) heterogeneidade(s) enunciativa(s) de Authier-Revuz, são observadas, em diálogos extraídos de três sessões de terapia de família realizadas em institutos de ensino e pesquisa (duas instituições autônomas e uma autarquia federal), as fronteiras da alteridade, evidenciadas no gênero discursivo \"sessão de terapia\". Tal gênero discursivo, que, em sua superfície pode ser entendido como encontro com fins terapêuticos para discutir temas de conflitos humanos em situação relacional, evidencia-se, no entanto, como um confronto entre vozes que disputam papéis/lugares sociais e familiares. As análises revelam que as fronteiras, delimitadas pela alternância dos sujeitos falantes, entre perguntas e respostas dos terapeutas e seus pacientes, constituem um processo de interação de vozes sociais, em contínuos entrecruzamentos e reconfigurações. Revelam também que os terapeutas constroem hipóteses para a intervenção nos conflitos familiares por meio dos deslizamentos dos sentidos (re-significação) e que buscam, para a resolução desses conflitos, o deslocamento enunciativo das vozes dos pacientes de uma posição monológica (ainda que presencial) para posições dialógicas. / This thesis investigates the discursive practices in systemic family therapy sessions. It focuses on the (re)construction of meanings in such therapeutic discourse, by focusing on what, within the therapeutic field, is known as re-signification and by attempting to consider critically the patient\'s request for help and the therapist\'s act of helping. It investigates also the subjects\' social/family places - including a certain representation by the therapist - when interacting at the therapy. Starting from the Bakhtinian notion of dialogism, which is revisited in the studies on enunciative heterogeneities by Authier-Revuz, the frontiers of otherness - evinced in the \"therapy session\" discourse gender - are observed, specifically in pieces of dialogues taken from three family therapy sessions held in teaching and research institutes (two of them autonomous institutions and a federal autarchy). Such discourse gender, which, in its surface might be understood as meeting aimed at therapeutic ends for discussing themes of human conflicts in relational situation, constitutes, however, a clash of voices that dispute family and social roles/places. The analyses reveal that the frontiers, circumscribed by the alternation of speaking subjects, between questions and answer of the therapists and their patients, consist of a process of social voices interaction, throughout continuous intercrossings and reconfigurations. The analyses demonstrate also that the therapists formulate hypotheses for the intervention in the family conflicts through the meaning slides (re-signification) and that they seek, for solving such conflicts, the enunciative displacing of the patients\' voices from a monological position (even though witnessed) to dialogical positions.

Thesis (M.A. (Applied Language and Literary Studies))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.

This thesis deals with the polyphonic and argumentative functions of the French negation marker, ne, in editorial texts from the daily press. The concept ‘polyphony’ relates to the presence of multiple voices within one and the same utterance. According to this view, negation triggers a subdivision of an utterance in two points of view. Thus the sentence Sweden will not be a part of the monetary union can be divided in two points of view, the underlying ‘Sweden will be a part of the monetary union’, and the explicit ‘Sweden will not be a part of the monetary union’. First, I study the polyphonic structure of negative utterances, notably their division in two points of view, by taking into account their specific linguistic features. This is done so as to identify the relevant linguistic criteria that determine the polyphonic interpretation of the negation. The study demonstrates that contextual elements, including pragmatic connectors, presuppositions contrastive elements, and several other devices constitute the primary source of polyphonic markers. Negation is furthermore approached from a textual perspective. I explore how the two opposite points of view that are associated with negation form polyphonic sequences with other points of view carrying the same semantic content, and how these dynamic points of view are associated to the different discourse beings that are found in the newspaper article. I found that these sequences often embrace the central polemic theme of the article and, also, that the polyphonic function is not restricted to the negative utterance but constitutes an element that ensures textual and argumentative coherence. These two analyses are carried out within Jean-Claude Anscombre’s and Oswald Ducrot’s Theory of Structural Argumentation, which has recently been formalised by Kjersti Fløttum, Coco Norén and Henning Nølke. Finally in this thesis, I analyse the relation between the discourse beings associated with the negative utterance and real beings that exist outside the text, and then consider what rhetorical implications that correspondence or no correspondence has on the polyphonic interpretation of the negation. I also examine whether polyphonic negation can be considered to be a feature of newspaper editorials that identifies these texts as a genre. This study shows that the locuteur, the discourse being responsible for the enunciation of the negative utterance on a textual level, links to the real being, the editorial writer, who then refutes points of view associated to other discourse beings, often by use of nominalizations that refer to community voices. The locuteur also intrudes into an argument or claim, and refutes it in the name of a community or an authority. By defining genre, as does the media researcher Patrick Charaudeau, as a correspondence between the constraints imposed by the discursive situation and the constraints imposed by the discursive features, and by considering that one of the editorial’s constraints is to persuade its readers, this study shows that the phrasal negation ne in its polyphonic function, constitutes a distinguishing feature in the genre of editorials. The refutations that are made by an editor constitute a distinctive argumentative strategy since it permits the editorial writer to present external points of view in order to refute them and thereby impose his or her own, subjective point of view.

The thesis´ aim is to deepen the understanding about what shapes and characterises the purchase process for management advice services. Such externally, acquired services have increased substantially, and in relation to the services´ impact on management decisions the theoretical and practical understanding of the purchase process is lagging behind. The thesis´ analyses, interpretations and conclusions are founded on empirical data collected by use of focus groups, and based on activity theory. The findings show that the purchase process is influenced by many actors who see themselves as subject in the process. They have similar but also conflicting objects that they want to fulfil. The outcome of the purchase process is influenced by contradictory opinions among the actors about how to organize and supervise the process. The main contradictions are influenced by the actors´ different objects and how they interpret the context of the purchase process. The context is shaped by such as leadership style, social rules regarding management of change and opinions about division of labour in the purchase process. The impression of the purchase process´s character is that commonly used supply chain models do not work as a characterization. The purchase process´s phases do not follow on each other and the glue that links the phases is not a rational procedure following one, firm route. The findings show that procurement, integration and follow-up phases overlap, are concurrent and integrated in each other. The purchase process reproduces the execution of polyphonic music in which different voices, each with its own melody, create a rich texture of sounds. In a similar way the purchase process is coined by actors who bring their own objects and competence into the process. It produces dissonance, as in polyphonic music. It mirrors the services character of competence development and shapes the purchase process as polyphonic rather than a rational, step by step process.

Résumé Ce travail cherche à révéler les stratégies utilisées dans Palinuro de México (1977) de Fernando del Paso pour représenter l’histoire du mouvement étudiant de 1968, qui se termina par le massacre de Tlatelolco. Afin de protéger son image, le gouvernement censura cet événement, qui compte parmi les plus marquants de l’histoire contemporaine du Mexique. Nous situons Palinuro de México dans un corpus littéraire qui résiste au silence imposé par les autorités avec la création d’une poétique capable de raconter l’histoire et de dénoncer la censure. Notre hypothèse s’appuie sur les réflexions de Paul Veyne et Jacques Rancière, qui démontrent que l’écriture de l’histoire ne possède pas de méthode scientifique, mais procède plutôt d’une construction littéraire. Cela nous permet d’affirmer que l’histoire, puisqu’elle relève de la littérature, peut aussi être racontée dans un roman. La théorie de la littérature carnavalesque de Mijail Bajtin, qui se caractérise par le rire, la liberté d’expression et l’opposition aux règles officielles, nous sert à identifier les procédés utilisés dans Palinuro de México pour créer une mémoire de Tlatelolco. Ce style rappelle la vitalité du mouvement étudiant, en soulignant la joyeuse subversion des valeurs. De plus, son caractère polyphonique permet d’inclure une pièce de théâtre dans un roman et de confronter les différentes idéologies qui s’opposaient durant le conflit. / Summary This work aims to reveal the strategies used in Fernando del Paso’s Palinuro de México (1977) to represent the history of the 1968 student movement, which ended with the massacre of Tlatelolco. In order to protect its image, the government censored this event, among the most significant of Mexico’s contemporary history. We approach Palinuro de México as part of a literary corpus that resists the silence imposed by the authorities with the creation of a poetics capable of recounting the student movement’s history and denouncing the regime’s censorship. Our working hypothesis borrows from research by Paul Veyne and Jacques Rancière, who demonstrate that the writing of history does not possess a scientific method, but is instead a form of literary construction. It allows us to assert that history, because it uses literature, can also be told in a novel. Mijail Bajtin’s theory of the carnavalesque, which is characterized by its humour, liberty of expression, and opposition to official rules, allows us to identify the literary processes used in Palinuro de México to create a memory of Tlatelolco. This style recalls the vitality of the student movement by underlining their merry, non-violent subversion of values. Its polyphonic element also allows the author to include a theatrical play within the novel and to represent the different ideologies opposed during the conflict. / Sumario Este estudio busca revelar las estrategias utilizadas en Palinuro de México (1977) de Fernando del Paso para representar la historia del movimiento estudiantil de 1968, que terminó con la masacre de Tlatelolco. Para proteger su imagen, el gobierno censuró este acontecimiento, que cuenta dentro de los más destacados de la historia contemporánea de México. Situamos a Palinuro de México dentro de un corpus literario que resiste al silencio impuesto por las autoridades con la creación de una poética capaz de contar esta historia y de denunciar la censura. La hipótesis que sostenemos se apoya en las reflexiones de Paul Veyne y Jacques Rancière, que demuestran que la escritura de la historia no tiene un método científico, sino que resulta de una construcción literaria. Esto nos permite afirmar que si la historia utiliza la literatura, puede también ser contada en una novela. La teoría de la literatura carnavalesca de Mijail Bajtin, que se caracteriza por la risa, la libertad de expresión y la oposición a las reglas oficiales, nos sirve para identificar los procedimientos literarios utilizados en Palinuro de México para crear una memoria de Tlatelolco. El estilo carnavalesco recuerda la vitalidad del movimiento estudiantil, subrayando la alegre subversión de los valores. Además, su carácter polifónico permite incluir una pieza de teatro en una novela y confrontar las distintas ideologías que se oponían durante el conflicto.

Ce mémoire en création littéraire se compose de deux parties. La première, un roman intitulé « Dieu reconnaîtra les seins », suit les aventures de Caroline, jeune femme dans la trentaine qui, ayant subi une ablation des seins, voit sa vie basculer alors qu'elle tente de trouver une solution médico-esthétique à sa situation. Le ton enjoué du roman permet d'aborder l'aspect tragique de la vie de Caroline de façon légère. Il permet également, sous forme d'humour ironique, absurde ou même noir, de soulever des thèmes universels tels que l'amour, la solitude, le désespoir, la pauvreté et la mort. Ainsi porté, le récit évolue vers une vision tant impitoyable que bienveillante de l'humain qui, à travers les événements à la fois médiocres et grandioses de la vie de Caroline, trouve sa place dans un univers pourtant hostile. La deuxième partie du mémoire se consacre à l'étude de l'humour dans « Au bonheur des ogres » de Daniel Pennac, et plus particulièrement, à l'humour inséré entre parenthèses. Pennac utilise abondamment ce procédé humoristique, créant ainsi un récit polyphonique où plusieurs niveaux narratifs entrent en dialogue. Trois types d'humour présents dans les parenthèses sont analysés, à savoir l'humour noir, l'humour absurde et l'ironie. Cet essai fait donc écho au roman en ce qu'il se penche sur l'humour et l'ironie comme procédés littéraires. / This thesis in creative writing is composed of two parts. The first one, a novel entitled Dieu reconnaîtra les “seins”, follows the adventures of a young woman in her thirties named Caroline who, having had her breasts surgically removed, sees her life plunge into chaos as she tries to find a cosmetic and medical solution to her situation. The light tone of the novel allows for an humorous look at the tragic cirucumstances Caroline finds herself in. Following the trials and tribulations of her life, the story touches on such universal themes as love, loneliness, hopelessness, poverty and death, and evolves toward a vision of humanity that is both merciless and benevolent. The second part of the thesis is an study of humour in Daniel Pennac's Au bonheur des ogres, and more specifically, the use of parentheses as a humoristic device. Pennac frequently uses parentheses as a way to create humour, thus building a polyphonic narrative in which various levels of discourse communicate with each other. Three types of humour are present within parentheses: black humour, absurdist humour and irony. As such, the essay echoes the novel in that it looks at humour and irony in literature.

This dissertation attempts a Bakhtinian analysis of the polyphonic dialogue between Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, Karel Schoeman's Na die Geliefde Land and Jason Xenopoulos' Promised Land. Specific Bakthinian concepts are employed to determine whether the films are "apt" adaptations of the literary texts; how the stylistically hybrid texts engage in conversation with different movements, genres and trends; how the polyphonic conversations between different texts and discourses, such as literature and film, or colonialism and postcolonialism, can provide insight into the variety of discourses, textual and ideological, of a postcolonial, post-apartheid South Africa; and how identity crises experienced by key characters can be explained using the notions of hybridity, "The Marginal Man" and liminality. All four texts have key characters that experience identity crises that spring from cultural hybridity; their cultural hybridity has the potential to either render them marginally stagnant or lead them to liminally active participation within their imagined communities. This dissertation argues that even though there are major differences between the films and the literary texts they are based upon, they are relevant to a specific target audience and therefore enrich the ur-texts. Salient characteristics of realism, symbolism, impressionism, modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism and the apocalyptic dialogise one another within the four texts, thereby liberating the texts from one authorial reading. The dialogue between the discourses of literature and film supplement an understanding of the dialogue between war, imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism and the Will to Power. / Thesis (M.A. (Applied Language and Literary Studies))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006

The aim of this essay is to investigate to which extent the novel Kvinnor och äppelträd by Moa Martinson can be classified as a polyphonic novel. The concept polyphony was established in literary theory by the Russian language theorist and literary critic Michail Bachtin in 1929, in his book Problems of Dostoevsky’s poetics. In order to understand and comprehend the concept of polyphony I have used an interpretation due to the literature scholar Robyn McCallum. She notes that the characters in a polyphonic novel function as focalizers. All fictional characters create their own basis of social, cultural and ideological opinions and values, from which they provide their particular perspective on the story. Therefore, when fictional characters and their socio-ideological viewpoints intersect, a rather complex structure of interaction, dialogues and intersubjectivity is created between them.  Kvinnor och äppelträd is according to the most prominent scholar in the field, Ebba Witt-Brattström, a polyphonic novel. Her presumption is based upon the plurality of voices that is expressed in the novel, and the ambiguous interaction between them. However, to the best of my knowledge, no profound investigation of the novel’s polyphonic structure has yet been undertaken, and therefore this essay is dedicated to this task. For this purpose I have performed an analysis of the narratology in the novel, resulting in the overall conclusion that Kvinnor och äppelträd is indeed a polyphonic novel. Since the concept of polyphony also implies a modernistic feature, one can discuss the fact that Kvinnor och äppelträd has been classified as working class literature, and not modernistic literature. The final conclusion of the essay is that the complex polyphonic structure of the novel, and its controversial and pioneering content, have been underestimated and ignored. Regarding this aspect Moa Martinson should have been categorized under the Swedish literary modernism.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T11:07:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ELEONE FERRAZ DE ASSIS.pdf: 500878 bytes, checksum: a89427a79939fcdad2f8000be0683383 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-15 / The goiano author Jose J. Veiga in all his publication, he wake up different opinions and even contradictory in the Brazilian literary criticism. In order to understand his fictional universe, this work examines the novel Sombras de reis barbudos, from the perspective of theoretical assumptions of irony and the poetry of surrealism. The first chapter, appointed "Narrative components of José J. Veiga," subdivided as follows: "The narrator in Sombras de reis barbudos"; "The plot", "The characters"; "The space" and "Time". In Sombras de reis barbudos, the narrator-character use internal approach and activetion of the autodiegetica memory to present the facts that have occurred in Taitara, the plot and characters are inseparable; the space and time narrative look for tobe situated charecter actoins in the repressive world described in history. The second chapter appointed "José J. Veiga in the Surrealism track", is divided in three parts that try to clarify the surreal poetry, the contact points of the novel Sombras de reis barbudos with the surrealism and policy of a surreal poetic, so as to show the veiguiana poetry introduces dare and liberating propose of the limits imposed for an oppressive system. The third and final chapter will be dedicate to the irony study that running of the novel language. Thus, it has consideretion on the irony like valued edge, the polyphony of veiguiano ironic speech and as polyphony, a discursive element that is often confused with the carnival language and too presente the novel by José J. Veiga as a starting point for interpretion, enjoying and formalising of reality. This research indicates that the novel contact points with the surreal and the irony presence show how an resistance attitude to oppressive context. / O autor goiano José J. Veiga, em todas as suas publicações, foi hábil em despertar opiniões diferentes e até contraditórias na crítica literária brasileira. Com o propósito de compreender seu universo ficcional, este trabalho analisa o romance Sombras de reis barbudos, sob a perspectiva dos pressupostos teóricos da ironia e da poética do surrealismo. O primeiro capítulo, intitulado Componentes da narrativa de José J. Veiga , subdivide-se em: O narrador em Sombras de reis barbudos ; O enredo ; As personagens ; O espaço e O tempo . Em Sombras de reis barbudos, o narrador-personagem utiliza-se da focalização interna e ativação da memória autodiegética para apresentar os fatos ocorridos em Taitara; o enredo e as personagens são indissociáveis; o espaço e o tempo narrativo buscam situar as ações dos personagens no mundo repressivo descrito na história. O segundo capítulo, intitulado José J. Veiga nas trilhas do Surrealismo , subdivide-se em três subcapítulos que tentam esclarecer a poética do surreal, os pontos de contato do romance Sombras de reis barbudos com o surreal e a política de uma poética surreal, de modo a evidenciar como a poética veiguiana instaura uma proposta ousada e libertadora dos limites impostos por um sistema opressor. O terceiro e último capítulo será dedicado ao estudo da ironia que perpassa pela linguagem do romance. Assim, apresenta considerações sobre a ironia de modo a enfocar a aresta avaliadora, a polifonia do discurso irônico veiguiano e como a polifonia, um elemento discursivo que se confunde muitas vezes com a linguagem carnavalizada e se presentifica no romance de José J. Veiga como ponto de partida para interpretação, apreciação e formalização da realidade. A presente pesquisa indica que tanto os pontos de contatos da obra com o surreal como a presença da ironia apresentam uma atitude de resistência ao contexto opressor de modo a se libertar das imagens acabadas e convencionadas, opondo-se aos valores perfeitos e imutáveis, pretensamente eternos e inquebrantáveis.

Resumo: Os elementos estruturais da narrativa do escritor português António Lobo Antunes tornam-se peças de um quebra-cabeça manipulado pelo autor, que, ao sinalizar para os escombros do contexto histórico reafirma os destroços da forma narrativa. Nesse processo se misturam os discursos jornalístico, político e religioso às vozes dos narradores e das personagens, dando origem a um instigante jogo polifônico. Com os romances Os Cus de Judas (1979), Fado Alexandrino (1983) e Exortação aos Crocodilos (1999), representativos de uma escrita que burla o discurso do autoritarismo, desautorizando-o e desautomatizando-o, enveredamos pelos meandros do grotesco e da ironia para expor os fragmentos de espaços marcados pelos acontecimentos de antes, durante e depois da Revolução dos Cravos e os fragmentos das guerras travadas, também, no interior das personagens. / Abstract: Structural elements of the Portuguese writer António Lobo Antunes' narratives are pieces of a puzzle manipulated by an author who tends to turn relative the ruins of historical context and reassert the wrecks of the narrative form. In this process, historical, political and religious speeches mix to the voices of narrators and characters, raising an enticing polyphonic game in which we intend to interact. With the South of Nowhere (1979), Fado Alexandrino (1983) and Exhortation to the Crocodiles (1999), we will go through meanders of irony, parody and grotesque to expose fragments of signed spaces through past events, throughout and after the Carnation Revolution and the wars engaged, also within characters - a space of writing that fools the authoritarianism speech, discrediting it and ending the automatic speech. / Orientador: Sônia Helena de Oliveira Raymundo Piteri / Coorientador: Ana Paula dos Duarte Arnaut / Banca: Lilian Jacoto / Banca: Márcia Valéria Zamboni Gobbi / Banca: Maria Heloísa Martins Dias / Doutor