Veridictory modalities and truth effects and complicity in the chronicle “Os dois bonitos e os dois feios”, by Raquel de Queiroz

Abstract

The way a text is structures, laying out the facts presented to the reader, guides the apprehension of the meanings constructed in it; in this bias, choosing the narrator type always involves a discursive intentionality mediated by enunciation. Based on this assumption, we will seek, in this paper, to understand how enunciative projections contribute to obtaining truth effects and complicity in the chronicle “Os dois bonitos e os dois feios”, by Raquel de Queiroz. Considering that enunciative projections indicate the enunciator’s modes of presence, we will adopt as a theoretical instrument the elements of syntax and semantics proposed by discursive semiotics through the description and analysis of the modes of textual organization of the shift in and shift out switches, as well as the relations stablished between the categories of person, time, space and figurative and thematic paths in the text, as Fiorin (2016) points out; we are also interested, in line with Bertrand (2003), in analyzing issues around the point of view and enunciative positions. With this inventory in hand, we will verify how syntactic procedures are semantically covered, in order to produce truth effects and complicity. We defend the hypothesis that the enunciative projections present in the text indicate a point of view guided by the complicity between the enunciator and the enunciatee, since it is built from a “truth” posed by the enunciator about which the enunciatee is frequently invited to express himself/herself. ; thus, the narrative constitutes an example that justifies the discursive position defended by the enunciator, that is, as a way of consolidating the discourse itself.