This thesis compares the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf and John Gardner&amp / #8217 / s novel Grendel in terms of their generic relations within a framework of Bakhtin&amp / #8217 / s genre theory. The analysis restricts its theoretical framework to basically two essays by Mikhail M. Bakhtin, namely Epic and Novel and Discourse in the Novel included in Michael Holquist&amp / #8217 / s The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin (1981). This study argues that Beowulf represents a monologic world, which is hierarchically distanced from the present. As Bakhtin puts it, the epic presents an already completed world placed in an absolute past, which demands a pious attitude as it is hierarchically above the reader. Gardner&amp / #8217 / s Grendel, on the other hand, is a retelling of the Beowulf story through the monster&amp / #8217 / s eye in the contemporary world. It suggests a dialogue between the elevated world of the epic hero Beowulf and the novelistic world of Grendel to achieve multiplicity in a truly Bakhtinian sense. For Gardner&amp / #8217 / s version enables the monstrous other, which is Grendel, to raise its voice. By changing the temporal order and narrative perspective, Gardner succeeds in re-writing an epic story in the novelistic zone of maximal proximity to the present. This thesis, however, argues that although Gardner&amp / #8217 / s Grendel displays all the novelistic features, basically multiplicity and contemporaneity, as put forward by Bakhtin, it still celebrates the ideal world of the epic.

Orientador: Sérgio Vicente Motta / Banca: Antonio Manoel dos Santos Silva / Banca: Luiz Gonzaga Marchezan / Resumo: Este trabalho consiste no estudo sobre o discurso do narrador8protagonista em sua interação com as demais personagens e com o narratário no romance São Bernardo, de Graciliano Ramos. As formulações teóricas de Mikhail Bakhtin (189581975) em relação à prosa de ficção têm como eixo norteador uma concepção dialógica tanto das idéias quanto da linguagem veiculadas pela narrativa. O dialogismo constitutivo do conteúdo e da forma literária situa8se como um fenômeno que se concretiza em relação ao "outro", sendo fruto de fatores de caráter extraliterário. O objetivo do trabalho é evidenciar as transformações que ocorrem na relação enunciador/enunciatário, no decorrer da narrativa, concomitantes às mudanças ocorridas na caracterização psicológica do protagonista Paulo Honório. Para isso, consideramos, a partir das definições de Bakhtin, que o discurso inicialmente convicto e manipulador deste narrador possui características predominantemente "monológicas" e que, a partir da interferência da personagem Madalena como um "outro", portadora de uma consciência independente, esse discurso tem o seu caráter "dialógico" acentuado. Identificamos os elementos e estratégias discursivas que caracterizam essas duas instâncias no texto, interpretando a interdiscursividade que se instaura nesse processo de mudança como representação do conflito entre ideologias sociais opostas. A partir do confronto entre os discursos ideológicos, buscamos reconhecer em Paulo Honório, com o desfecho trágico, a vítima de sua própria concepção materialista de vida, pois, com o suicídio de Madalena, ele percebe que o que almejava não se baseia em valores autênticos, revelando a presença da ironia, no texto, como técnica narrativa com função crítica. / Abstract: This is a study on the protagonist8narrator's discourse in its interaction with the other characters and with the narratary in the novel São Bernardo, by Graciliano Ramos. Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical formulations (189581975) about the fictional prose have a dialogic conception as much the ideas as the language transmitted by the narrative. The constitutive dialogism of the literary content and form is situated as a phenomenon that realizes itself in relation to the "other", being product of factors of extra literary content. The objective of the work is to evidence the transformations that happen in the relationship between the enunciator and the enunciatary, in the course of the narrative, concomitant to the changes happened in the protagonist Paulo Honório psychological characterization. For this, I have considered, based on the Bakhtin's definitions, that the initially convict and manipulator discourse of this narrator possess characteristics predominantly "monologics" and that, starting from the character Madalena's interference like "other", a bearer of an independent conscience, the narrator discourse has its "dialogic" character accentuated. I have identified the discursive strategies and elements that characterize these two instances in the text, interpreting the interaction between discourses that is established in that changing process as the representation of the conflict among opposite social ideologies. Based on the confrontation among the ideological discourses, I have recognized in Paulo Honório, with the tragic ending, the victim of his own materialistic conception of life, because, with the suicide of Madalena, he realizes that what he longed for is not based on authentic values, revealing the presence of the irony, in the text, as narrative technique with critical function. / Mestre

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo Fernando Assis dos Santos.pdf: 1536485 bytes, checksum: a5ecc665cf98dff5e1e30e09968b8a13 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-29 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This research discusses the concept of language present in George Orwell´s book 1984 and relates it with the official concept of language of Russia during the 1920´s and 1930´s . For doing this, we chose as study object the book 1984 from which we selected newspeak as the corpus of analyses. Newspeak consists of a language system that´s is being created by the government of the plot and once it is finished and put into practice, would impeach people to have different opinions from the government and the existence of the other languages would also be impossible. The main feature of newspeak is that it is being constructed through the destruction of the current language. On the other side, we have the official Russian linguistics of the 30´s that has a similar project of destruction of the linguistic material and creation of a single universal language. Our objective in this research is to describe, analyze and interpretate through the linguistic-discursive newspeak material, the discourses that constitutes the book and establish dialogic relations between newspeak and the official russian linguistics of the 30´s, period which the book makes analogies. We inquire in this research what is the concept of language of Newspeak and the official russian linguistics of the 1920´s and 1930´s, which dialogic relations can be established between both concepts, which dialogic relations can be stablished between the newspeak lexical group that relates crime with the idea of disagreement of the government policies and the stanist society concerning the same matter and which language knowledge our dialogic relation meets. This research reconstruct some discourses about the Russian revolutionary period since the czarism regime until the great purge, it also identifies the official Russian linguistics theory of the 20´s and 30´s, and shows how 1984 materialize the discourses concerning the speech restriction policies that come from this historical period. Our methodology for the corpus´ construction was done based on the following steps; a) Describe the process of destruction of the current language; b) Identification of the term Newspeak and the terms in Newspeak through all narrative; (c) Construction of a glossary that has the definition of the words in Newspeak. Through the description of newspeak and the analyses of two linguistics marks, it was possible to realize that the human language either in life or in art, is able to create compensatory mechanisms that weakens and cancel the forces that struggles to finish with the heteroglossia that keeps the human language ideologically saturated. We also indentify the diference between the fictional language and the scientific one: the former there is not any diference between the act of uttering and the utterance, whereas the latter this difference is part of the discourse genre. This research is based on Bakhtinian´s circle theory, that discusses language through its social historical point of view. We used the concept of axiology, ideological sign, infrastructure and superstructure, monologism, dialogism, centripetal forces and centrifugal forces / Este trabalho discute o conceito de língua/linguagem em 1984 de George Orwell e relaciona esse conceito com o da linguística oficial russa das décadas de 1920/1930. Para tanto, selecionamos, especificamente, a novilíngua como corpus de pesquisa. A novilíngua consiste em um sistema linguístico elaborado pelos detentores do poder da ficção orwelliana que, quando finalizado e colocado em uso, impediria a expressão de opiniões contrárias ao regime e a existência de outras línguas. A característica central para a existência da novilíngua é a destruição da língua vigente. Ao pesquisarmos a política linguística oficial russa das décadas de 1920 e 1930, descobrimos um projeto similar de destruição das línguas existentes e de criação de uma língua única. Nosso objetivo de pesquisa, portanto, é descrever, analisar e interpretar, por meio da materialidade linguístico-discursiva da novilíngua, os discursos históricos que atravessam a obra e, a partir daí, estabelecer relações dialógicas entre o conceito de língua/linguagem de 1984 e esse mesmo conceito na linguística oficial russa das décadas de 1920/1930. Questionamos em nosso trabalho qual é o conceito de língua/linguagem da novilíngua e da linguística oficial russa das décadas de 1920/1930, quais relações dialógicas podem ser estabelecidas entre o conceito da novilíngua e esse mesmo conceito da linguística oficial russa dos anos 1930, quais relações dialógicas podem serestabelecidas entre o léxico da novilíngua, que trata o pensamento discordante ao sistema totalitário como crime, e a sociedade stalinista no que diz respeito à restrição da liberdade de expressão e quais conhecimentos sobre a linguagem humana nossa análise dialógica vai de encontro. Este estudo recupera alguns discursos que circulam sobre a história da Rússia desde o final do período czarista até o auge do expurgo stalinista, identifica a teoria linguística oficial da Rússia das décadas de 1920/1930 e mostra como a obra 1984, de Orwell, materializa os discursos advindos desse período histórico. Nossa metodologia para composição do corpus e descrição da novilíngua obedeceu à seguinte dinâmica: a) descrever o processo de destruição da língua vigente para a construção da novilíngua; b) levantamento do termo novilíngua e dos termos em novilíngua, em toda a narrativa; c) construção de um glossário que contém a definição das palavras em novilíngua. Por meio da descrição da novilíngua e da nossa respectiva análise, foi possível constatar que a linguagem humana, tanto na vida como na arte, é capaz de criar mecanismos compensatórios que atenuam e anulam as forças que querem acabar com o plurilinguísmo e assim manter a linguagem humana, mesmo sob forte coerção de sistemas políticos totalitários, pluriacentuada e ideologicamente saturada. Identificamos também a diferença entre a linguagem científica e a ficcional: na linguagem científica não há divergência entre o enunciado e a enunciação; na linguagem ficcional essa divergência é constituinte. Este trabalho está embasado pela teoria Bakhtiniana, que discute a linguagem pelo seu viés sócio-histórico ideológico. Utilizamos os conceitos de axiologia, signo ideológico, infraestrutura e superestrutura, dialogismo, forças centrípetas e centrífugas.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Science popularization (SP) involves a complex process of recontextualization of scientific knowledge in the mass media. This process is realized in discursive genres through which the journalist mediator appropriates and re-elaborates the knowledge produced by specialists to a non-specialized audience (MOTTA-ROTH, 2009), making use of intertextual strategies. One of the SP genres investigated in the umbrella project Análise crítica de gêneros discursivos em práticas sociais de popularização da ciência (MOTTA-ROTH, 2010a), developed at Laboratório de Pesquisa e Ensino de Leitura e Redação (LABLER), under supervision of Professor Désirée Motta Roth, is the SP news genre. Partindo desses resultados obtidos sob a ótica da Análise Crítica de Gênero (MEURER, 2002; BHATIA, 2004; MOTTA-ROTH, 2005; 2008), o objetivo deste estudo é investigar os expoentes linguísticos da intertextualidade que evidenciam o jogo entre expansão e contração dialógica em 45 notícias de PC em inglês.The results of analyses concerning this genre and related to the umbrella project have pointed to a predominance of the researcher s voice as the voice of science (MARCUZZO, 2011) and, as a consequence, to an effect of monologism (MOTTA-ROTH; LOVATO, 2011, based on MOIRAND, 2003), which results from and reinforces the hegemonic discourse of science. Based on these results obtained under the perspective of Critical Genre Analysis (MEURER, 2002; BHATIA, 2004; MOTTA-ROTH, 2005; 2008), the objective of this study is to investigate the linguistic exponents of Engagement that serve as evidence of the relation between dialogic contraction and expansion in 45 SP news texts in English. Therefore, the present study has two focus of analysis: text and context. The context analysis involves: a) investigating the process of SP; and b) investigating the sites of the publications in terms of the variables field, tenor and mode. The text analysis involves: a) identifying quoting and reporting (projection); b) interpreting the linguistic traces of engagement (acknowledge, distance and endorse) in the texts of the corpus and c) relating data from text and context analyses. The results corroborate the effect of monologism identified by Motta-Roth and Lovato (2011) as they indicate that, in spite of the higher recurrence of dialogic expansion (mainly ackowledge), the journalist promotes nor the coexistence neither the debate among the different voices than the journalist s. These results suggest that, besides positioning him/herself as the information mediator, the journalist author of the news contracts the discourse as he/she emphasizes the specialist s voice and restrains the participation of other sectors of society among the comments about the popularized research (MARCUZZO, 2011), reinforcing the hegemonic power of science in society. / A popularização da ciência (PC) envolve um processo complexo de recontextualização do conhecimento científico na mídia de massa. Esse processo é materializado em gêneros discursivos a partir dos quais o jornalista mediador apropria-se de e reelabora o conhecimento produzido por especialistas para uma audiência não especializada (MOTTA-ROTH, 2009), fazendo uso de estratégias intertextuais. Um desses gêneros de PC investigado no projeto guarda-chuva Análise crítica de gêneros discursivos em práticas sociais de popularização da ciência (MOTTA-ROTH, 2010a), desenvolvido no Laboratório de Pesquisa e Ensino de Leitura e Redação (LABLER), sob coordenação da Profa. Dra. Désirée Motta Roth, é a notícia de PC. Os resultados de análises desse gênero, relacionadas ao projeto guarda-chuva, têm apontado para um predomínio da voz do pesquisador como voz da ciência (MARCUZZO, 2011) e, como consequência, um efeito de monologismo (MOTTA-ROTH; LOVATO, 2011, com base em MOIRAND, 2003), que resulta de e reforça o poder hegemônico do discurso da ciência. Partindo desses resultados obtidos sob a ótica da Análise Crítica de Gênero (MEURER, 2002; BHATIA, 2004; MOTTA-ROTH, 2005; 2008), o objetivo deste estudo é investigar os expoentes linguísticos de engajamento que evidenciam o jogo entre expansão e contração dialógica em 45 notícias de PC em inglês. Portanto, o presente estudo possui dois focos de análise: o texto e o contexto. A análise do contexto envolve: a) investigação do processo de PC; e b) investigação dos sites das publicações em termos das variáveis campo, relações e modo. A análise textual envolve: a) identificação de citação e relato b) identificação e interpretação dos expoentes linguísticos do engajamento (reconhecimento, distanciamento e endosso) nos textos do corpus e c) relação entre os dados da análise textual e da análise do contexto. Os resultados corroboram o efeito de monologismo identificado por Motta-Roth e Lovato (2011) ao indicarem que, apesar da maior recorrência dos recursos de expansão dialógica (principalmente de reconhecimento), o jornalista não promove a coexistência nem o debate de pontos de vista diferentes do do pesquisador. Esses resultados sugerem que, além de demarcar sua posição como mediador da informação, o jornalista autor da notícia contrai o discurso ao enfatizar a voz do especialista e restringir a participação de outros setores da sociedade nos comentários sobre a pesquisa popularizada (MARCUZZO, 2011), reforçando, assim, o poder hegemônico da ciência na sociedade.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-02-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:59:39Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 goncalves_rg_me_sjrp.pdf: 524930 bytes, checksum: 172370d073061c028c46cf9a1812ce62 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Este trabalho consiste no estudo sobre o discurso do narrador8protagonista em sua interação com as demais personagens e com o narratário no romance São Bernardo, de Graciliano Ramos. As formulações teóricas de Mikhail Bakhtin (189581975) em relação à prosa de ficção têm como eixo norteador uma concepção dialógica tanto das idéias quanto da linguagem veiculadas pela narrativa. O dialogismo constitutivo do conteúdo e da forma literária situa8se como um fenômeno que se concretiza em relação ao “outro”, sendo fruto de fatores de caráter extraliterário. O objetivo do trabalho é evidenciar as transformações que ocorrem na relação enunciador/enunciatário, no decorrer da narrativa, concomitantes às mudanças ocorridas na caracterização psicológica do protagonista Paulo Honório. Para isso, consideramos, a partir das definições de Bakhtin, que o discurso inicialmente convicto e manipulador deste narrador possui características predominantemente “monológicas” e que, a partir da interferência da personagem Madalena como um “outro”, portadora de uma consciência independente, esse discurso tem o seu caráter “dialógico” acentuado. Identificamos os elementos e estratégias discursivas que caracterizam essas duas instâncias no texto, interpretando a interdiscursividade que se instaura nesse processo de mudança como representação do conflito entre ideologias sociais opostas. A partir do confronto entre os discursos ideológicos, buscamos reconhecer em Paulo Honório, com o desfecho trágico, a vítima de sua própria concepção materialista de vida, pois, com o suicídio de Madalena, ele percebe que o que almejava não se baseia em valores autênticos, revelando a presença da ironia, no texto, como técnica narrativa com função crítica. / This is a study on the protagonist8narrator's discourse in its interaction with the other characters and with the narratary in the novel São Bernardo, by Graciliano Ramos. Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical formulations (189581975) about the fictional prose have a dialogic conception as much the ideas as the language transmitted by the narrative. The constitutive dialogism of the literary content and form is situated as a phenomenon that realizes itself in relation to the other, being product of factors of extra literary content. The objective of the work is to evidence the transformations that happen in the relationship between the enunciator and the enunciatary, in the course of the narrative, concomitant to the changes happened in the protagonist Paulo Honório psychological characterization. For this, I have considered, based on the Bakhtin’s definitions, that the initially convict and manipulator discourse of this narrator possess characteristics predominantly “monologics and that, starting from the character Madalena’s interference like “other”, a bearer of an independent conscience, the narrator discourse has its “dialogic” character accentuated. I have identified the discursive strategies and elements that characterize these two instances in the text, interpreting the interaction between discourses that is established in that changing process as the representation of the conflict among opposite social ideologies. Based on the confrontation among the ideological discourses, I have recognized in Paulo Honório, with the tragic ending, the victim of his own materialistic conception of life, because, with the suicide of Madalena, he realizes that what he longed for is not based on authentic values, revealing the presence of the irony, in the text, as narrative technique with critical function.

This thesis is initiated by the need for public dialogue between the church and the other. As a faith-praxis, public dialogue between the church and the other is a response to “binary opposition” or “dichotomy,” that is, the separation of faith and praxis, knowing and doing, private sphere and public sphere, Christian and non-Christian, text and context, educator and learner. As explored in Chapter 2, religion is presently characterized by privatization and does not provide an answer to the culture of separation in today’s society. Consequently, the ghettoized church behind the wall is confronted by a dual crisis—an internal crisis of identity and an external crisis of relevance. Therefore, to shape a dialogic relationship through public dialogue is an essential task of the public church, the so-called “go-to-all” church. To execute “public dialogue” as the commitment to “go-to-all” three actions are necessary: (1) going outside the wall of the church, (2) entering into dialogue with the “all,” and (3) making disciples, baptizing, and teaching the all. How will the church dialogue with the other? In view of these three actions, this thesis researches three main elements of public dialogue—(1) preparing a place/field for public dialogue, (2) formulating a new communicative pattern for public dialogue, and (3) exploring a medium for public dialogue. In order to achieve these elements of public dialogue, the patterns of public dialogue toward faith-praxis that the Korean church has shown historically in the public sphere were explored in Chapter 3. This thesis concerns an art-cultural pattern of public dialogue, particularly madanggŭk. Madanggŭk is a compound noun: madang (open place) + gŭk (theatre). Madanggŭk contains the three elements for public dialogue—(1) “field or place” for public dialogue; (2) a mode of theatre as a medium for public dialogue; and (3) the “communicability” peculiar to the madanggŭk. Through the practices of cultural public dialogue in the Korean theological domain and the minjung cultural movement centering on madanggŭk studied in Chapter 4, it is revealed that madanggŭk showed the four characteristics of mutual communication which are essential in formulating an alternative pattern of public dialogue: (1) rediscovery of the audience, (2) re-creation of traditional culture founded on festivity and a communal spirit, (3) their own stories and reality-reading, and (4) activity outside the theatrical world in order to meet the audience. However, madanggŭk also had the limitation of a binary opposition of social-directivity and artistic-directivity, tending toward social drama. Therefore, an alternative form of public dialogue to overcome this binary opposition was required. As an alternative with the purpose of shifting from monologism to dialogism, this thesis suggests “Trinity Madang Public Dialogue,” i.e. three models of madang public dialogue—Incarnational Public Dialogue, Critical Public Dialogue, and Festival Public Dialogue. The first model, Incarnational Public Dialogue, explores how to accept the other and the difference under the principles of otherness, unfinalizability and polyphony, proposing the culture of participative dialogue. The second model, Critical Public Dialogue, explores practical strategies for recognizing and criticizing the distorted communication and relationship of monologism, and for developing the audience’s competencies of understanding and criticism without merging into an authorial single voice, proposing the culture of criticism and transformation. The third model, Festival Public Dialogue, is suggested as a time-space for fulfilling both incarnational and critical principles and for the harmony of a rational and a sensuous nature, proposing the culture of laughter, play and the imagination. The principles of the three models should be fully realized in the Christian community before performing dialogic madang-theatre. When the Christian community preparing for this type of public dialogue is transformed into a “dialogic” community, it will promote madang public dialogue with the audience. The core of madang public dialogue lies in the formation of a dialogic relationship and a dialogic community, rather than in the performance itself. Therefore, in Chapter 6, The “Six Stages of Dialogic Praxis” through which the madang Christian community can be recreated effectively to form a dialogic community is projected. And, an “Incarnational-Dialogic Paradigm” is suggested as an alternative to a schooling-instructional paradigm of Christian education. / Thesis (PhD (Practical Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Practical Theology / unrestricted