Ethos e vozeamentos

Abstract

The study consists of a discursive analysis of the song Letter to Mother Africa, by Genival Oliveira Gonçalves. With a prominent social criticism, the discourse refers to the racism of yesterday and today and to the slavery of the black population that happened in the past of our country, but which at present still shows its marks of oppression and violation of human rights. The main objective is to examine how the discursive ethos of the enunciator is constituted. It seeks to capture the linguistic-discursive aspects of the text such as interdiscursivity, processes of metaphorization, antithetical and semiotic games, discursive responsiveness, construction, mobilization and projection of the discursive ethos. The study is based mainly on Bakhtin's (2002, 2003, 2014) theoretical conceptions about dialogism and polyphony and on the notions of ethos coined by Aristotle (2015) and Maingueneau (2008a, 2008b). Proceeding to the analysis, it became possible to perceive the discursive activity of the enunciator, to observe how he positions him enunciatively, establishing and articulating dialogical movements, in order to mobilize the audience and to legitimize his discourse. Thus, it was possible to perceive how the construction and projection of his discursive ethos takes place.