The build of ethé of virtue in personal letters of not famous fiancés in the 1930s

Authors

  • Karen Pereira Fernandes de Souza UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
  • Welton Pereira e Silva UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze how certain discursive ethé are build in some interactional exchanges made through letters. For that, we based our analysis on the theorical and methodological framework of the Semiolinguistic Theory of Discourse. The main goal is to describe and analyze the build of ethos made by a not famous couple of fiancés, the protagonists of the situations of communication present in our corpus. This corpus is constituted by 12 letters exchanged by this couple, in Rio de Janeiro, in the 1930s. After conclusion of the analysis, we notice the prevalent construction of the ethos of virtue since the subjects aim to build discursive images in accordance to sociodiscursive imagery of their time with regard to proper behavior for an engaged couple.

Keywords: letters, discourse analysis, semiolinguistics, discursive ethé.

Author Biographies

Karen Pereira Fernandes de Souza, UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Especialista em metodologia da Língua Portuguesa pela AVM. Mestre em Letras Vernáculas: Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Doutoranda em Letras Vernáculas: Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

Welton Pereira e Silva, UFRJ - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Mestre em Letras: Estudos Linguisticos pela Universidade Federal de Viçosa. Doutorando em Letras Vernáculas: Língua Portuguesa pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

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Published

2017-03-27

How to Cite

Souza, K. P. F. de, & Silva, W. P. e. (2017). The build of ethé of virtue in personal letters of not famous fiancés in the 1930s. Calidoscópio, 15(2), 346–354. Retrieved from https://www.revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/calidoscopio/article/view/cld.2017.152.11

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2017): May/August

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