Em busca da representação de trabalhador em canções de Chico Buarque: um estudo enunciativo da linguagem poética

Abstract

This dissertation proposes to investigate the representation of the laborer in songs by Chico Buarque, taking as its basis the enunciative theory of Émile Benveniste (PLG I and PLG II). In the accomplishment of this proposal, an impasse was found: the songs by Chico Buarque rely on the poetic language, left aside in PLG I and PLG II, which are restricted to the study of ordinary language. Based on this indication made by the author that his reformulations about ordinary language might be, direct or indirectly, enlightening to the study of poetic language, we revisited his texts produced between 1967 and 1970, in which is mentioned the interest in poetic language, and the reflection is centralized over the notion of significance. Based on our re-reading, we came to the conclusion that the theory of Benveniste involves the poetic. We derived, then, from his reflections, ways of comprehending the poetic language, as well as possibilities of poems analysis. Given that, by the enunciative perspective, we don’t approach the corpus with previous categories of analysis, we earched in in the songs the elements to build its signification. We analyzed three songs: Construção (1971), Cotidiano (1971) and Ela é dançarina (1981). The results show that in these songs we find a saying about the world that contributes to the comprehension of the human experience.