Conceptualização de "serra gaúcha" no discurso turístico publicitário

Abstract

Serra Gaúcha is considered a dense area of tourist vocations tourist, historical-cultural, enogastronomy and industrial. Understanding "Serra Gaúcha" as the demarcation of certain regional areas, we start from the principle that it constitutes, according to a conceptualization process, as a conceptual category. Through means of Cognitive Linguistics, we analyze how the category SERRA GAUCHA is constructed on tourist advertising discourse. There are several forms of demarcation: cultural regions (due immigration traces), geography, tourism industry (division in micro tourist region following State Secretariat of Tourism) and sectorial groups of economic interests (furniture, metallurgical and wine). In this dissertation, we investigated different ways of categorizing the region named "Serra Gaúcha" a toponym from tourism sector perspective. We look forward to identify cognitive and cultural models underlying the discourses that constitute the corpus of study, compound of tourism advertising material of the Serra Gaúcha . It appears that the regional demarcations in tourist advertising discourse use metaphoric and metonymic models, which generate effects of prototypically. Specifically, Serra Gaúcha is conceptualized, metonymically, by reference to the products generated in the region, demarcating it as a potential consumer markets. Characteristics (metonymically or metaphorically) have a role in attracting tourists to a market of consumer choices: nature, cultural patrimony, gastronomy, typical products, among others.