Marcas de subjetividade em editoriais: uma perspectiva benvenistiana de análise

Abstract

This dissertation aims at proposing an enunciative analysis of marks of subjectivity present in editorials of the following newspapers: Folha de São Paulo, O Estado de São Paulo and O Globo, all of them published during the period of Brazilian election campaign in 2018. In order to reach this purpose, it reviews the Émile Benveniste's studies, emphasizing the papers "Relationships of Person in the Verb', "The nature of pronouns", "Subjectivity in language", "Language and human experience" and "The formal apparatus of enunciation", published in both volumes of Problems in General Linguistics (1989, 1995), considering what researchers of enunciative linguistics call Enunciation Theory and the concepts of linguistic categories of person, time, and space, marks of subjectivity and the formal apparatus of language, specific clues and accessory procedures; besides that, it relies on studies by Brazilian researchers who have dedicated to Benveniste?s work, such as Flores (2005, 2009, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019); Teixeira (2012, 2013); Toldo (2016, 2017, 2018); and Silva (2018). Taking into consideration the inseparable feature of man and language in the work of Benveniste, this study attempts at eliciting the contributions of the Enunciation Theory in the analysis of marks of subjectivity in a discourse in which the subject enunciates in the name of another and is conditioned to rules concerning the journalistic entrepreneurship and concerning the specific legislation of the election campaign period. So as to trace a picture of journalistic discourse, of editorials and the editorial writer's role in the face of language, this study also analyses writing manuals published by the newspapers that make up the corpus, and the rules about the publications in the print media during election campaign period. Based on the Benveniste?s presupositions, this study concluded that the marks of subjectivity can be evidenced in the editorials analyzed both by means of specific clues, which include the categories of person, time and space; and by means of accessory procedures, among which the terms and apparatus of functions that indicate an intersubjective relationship considered from the perspective of the utterer to influence the behavior of the allocutor[resumo fornecido pelo autor].