Análise sociorretórica da dedicatória como um gênero textual institucionalizado

Abstract

The Genre Analysis (GA) investigates textual genres used in different contexts, based on the social interaction of the members of a communicative community. We aimed to analyze institutionalized dedications, in the academic environment, he is investigating the dedication as a textual genre, he is aiming to understand how the process of elaboration and use of dedications in the academic environment, in different communicative communities. The discussion started with the attempt to answer the following research questions: What is the rhetorical organization of the dedication produced in the academic context? What are the processes for identifying the dedicators in relation to the persons honored in the dedications? What are the typologies and categories of research analysis, linked to the research community? Applied theory is based on socio-retheoterical analyses of genre, from the perspective of Jhon Swales. In the methodology of the research, this investigation is characterized as deductive, since we start from the theory for the data collected. This is a qualitative research. For that, we selected theoretical texts about the four guiding axes of the study: gender analysis, rhetorical studies of genres, academic context and dedication. In this process, we define authors, texts, construct reference files and prepare catalytic data sheets to identify the selected dedications for the corpus of analysis, which collaborated to define the categories of analysis. After delimiting the research cut, we continue to read the existing literature that collaborated in the definition of the research cut, which allowed us to define the dedications that constituted the corpus of the study. We investigated the forms used in the composition of the dedications, from the recurrent rhetorical situation of conclusion of scientific work at master's level - the production of the academic dissertation. The rethorical units selected for this study are included in academic dissertations of a public university in Goias. For that, 68 dissertations were collected from two areas of concentration: education and language (Letters and Linguistic). The period contemplated for the selection of the academic dissertations was from January 2014 to December 2015. In the analysis of the dedications, we define four general categories: the rhetorical structure of the genre, the types of dedicators, the modes of identification and the structure of the rhetorical movements. According to the results obtained, the rhetorical organization of the dedication presents compositional structures, mechanisms of hybridization, specific allocation and typical expressions of communicative communities. These characteristics define a certain pattern of rhetorical composition of the dedication composed of the identification of the dedication(s), the establishment of the relational bond between the dedicator and the dedication(s), the description of the rhetorical action that justifies the link and presentation of the of the dedicator(s). In the end, we find that: the institutionalized environments present habitual rhetorical situations; the academic context is an institutional symbolic power; textual genres are the conventionalization of communication; the typification is the common regularities that elaborate and justify the existence, use and maintenance of the textual genres that validate the generic construct and the theoretical support that support them; the dedication within hypergenesis is a rhetorical subunit within the genre; the dedications can be classified as to the rhetorical construction, types of recipients and modes of identification, in addition, the dedication presents a structural model of rhetorical movements.