Formas de recategorização e transcategorização em narrativas orais amazônicas: dimensões cognitivo-culturais.
Abstract
This study adopts as its central thematic reference Forms of Recategorization and
Transcategorization in Amazonian Oral Narratives: Cognitive - Cultural Dimensions,
taking into account the presence of these Narratives in popular culture in the Amazon.
The study is based on theoretical contributions on “Textual Linguistics” (Koch, 2008),
“Referencing as a Cognitive-Discursive and Interactional Activity” (Koch, 2001), Orality
(Marcuschi, 2010, Souza, 2018), in research on Amazonian Oral Narratives (Moura,
2013, Medeiros, 2015). The research is characterized as participatory intervention
research. This characteristic is due to the fact that the researcher becomes involved
and identifies with the communities being investigated (Freire, 1986). The research
aimed to detect the processes of recategorization and transcategorization in oral
narratives of the popular culture of riverside peoples in the interior of the Amazon,
specifically in the communities of Irurama and Igarapé Açu da Ponta Negra – both
located in the interior of the municipality of Santarém-Pará –, and to understand how
these Stories build the cultural references of the contexts where they are told. In the
first phase, a bibliographical analysis was carried out on the topic under study; In the
second phase, field research took place, collecting narratives in the Communities
described above. These stories were told spontaneously, when this researcher was
interacting with the aforementioned communities, recorded in audio resources with the
aim of maintaining their originality and authenticity, later transcribed using oral text
transcription standards., NURC. The analyzes include forms of referencing, based on
recategorization and transcategorization in Amazonian oral narratives. The corpus is
made up of four entities: “The woman who was born into a jaguar”, “Curupira”, “Boto”
and “Cobra Grande”.