The enunciator in a short story by Clarice Lispector

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate how a enunciator, native speaker of
Brazilian Portuguese, creates a discourse on what show itself as a native speaker of European Portuguese. Intends to answer the following questions: a) Why a writer speaker of the Brazilian Portuguese writes a short story that uses the European Portuguese? b) Which are the effects in terms of sense produced by the use of this variety? The theory foundation relies on the Discursive Semiotics and in the theory of
the enunciation. The methodologic consists in the analysis of the short story Devaneio e embriaguez duma rapariga, by Clarice Lispector, from the lexical and synthetic choices of the enunciator expressed in the plan of expression. Discourses in which Brazilian Portuguese speakers seek to reproduce the European Portuguese variety usually makes use of stereotyped procedures: in the oral language focus on the attempt to reproduced the prosodic aspects; in the written, relies mostly in the use of a lexicon that attests the differences between the two varieties. The analysis results show that the enunciator, to draw for the enunciate the image of a native speaker of the European Portuguese, did not limit itself to linguistic aspects, but also to discursive aspects, especially those related to the projection of the categories from enunciation in the discursive level.