Banca de DEFESA: SOILA CANAM

THE TEXT PLANT: A SEMANTIC ENUNCIATIONAL STUDY ON THE FORTRESS BUILT BETWEEN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES IN MATO GROSSO

Plant text. Colonial Fortresses. Event Semantics.

This thesis belongs to the Study of Linguistic Processes concentration area, included in the research line Studies of Meaning Processes of the Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Program in Linguistics at the State University of Mato Grosso (PPGL/UNEMAT). Our general objective was to base the architectural plans as a text, based on the articulation of the verbal and non-verbal elements that integrate them, and make them signify as such; It is important to say that this study considers the non-verbal as an element that functions in the language event as something that signifies the real, however, we do not take it in isolation, but rather, articulated with the verbal. Furthermore, specifically, we sought to identify the ways of rewriting within this text plan and in other texts referring to forts; We also seek to show the morphosyntactic functioning of the names that name the fortresses, when designated they project meanings that are either related to Portugal or a tribute to Portuguese royalty. For this, our theoretical basis is Event Semantics developed by semanticist Eduardo Guimarães (2009, 2017, 2018), in line with Karim (2012, 2021), Dias (2013, 2018) and Oliveira (2020). Our corpus is composed of verbal and non-verbal statements present in the architectural plans of the forts built in Mato Grosso at the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th century during Colonial Brazil, a period in which Mato Grosso, Rondônia and Mato Grosso do Sul were still part of the Captaincy of Mato Grosso. Thus, our analysis material is composed of two fortresses, or even fortified squares, the Forte de Coimbra (1776) and the Real Forte do Príncipe da Beira (1777). Linked to the plans, we also use clippings of verbal statements that integrate different types of texts such as minutes of the foundation of fortresses, scientific articles, theses, dissertations and book chapters. Research in Event Semantics allowed us to observe how the science of language can observe the meanings of the names of fortresses considering the social – cultural – historical aspects installed in a temporality that make them mean what they mean in the present of the enunciation. Thus, it was possible to show the dynamicity of the meanings produced in the present of the enunciation, this means that the term fortress constitutes a memorable past, therefore, when it is enunciated at this moment, it does not have the same meaning as when it was enunciated in the colonial period. To say fortress, today, is to mean them as the Federative Republic of Brazil. Saying fortress, cutting out an enunciative past of colonial Brazil, means producing meanings such as territorial invasion, murders, the Portuguese Crown, royalty, maritime expeditions, power, politics, borders, human trafficking and the extermination of indigenous ethnicities. In general, these are some meanings projected by the expression “Strong”. With this, it is worth highlighting that the importance of this research is due to the fact that this theoretical current allows us to look at the architectural plan of forts, glimpsing the articulation between the verbal and non-verbal elements that constitute it and signify it as a unit of meaning, like a plant text, in addition, we understand that the constitution of the meanings projected by the statements that say about them transcends territorial spatiality until reaching the constitution of Brazilian society. This means that when we enunciate the text of Fort X, we are enunciating a past whose terms slavery, poverty, quilombo, social inequality and racism are revealed in their genesis. The origin of the meanings of these expressions is constituted in this past that gave rise to Brazilian territory. Thus, we hope that our work can contribute to studies of meaning, in order to strengthen discussions and reflections on the text plan based on enunciative semantics.