O progresso na "marcha para o oeste" : uma analise enunciativa na imprensa mato-grossense

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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This work is theoretically based on the Semantics of Enunciation, which considers language in its relation to history. We try to understand the meanings of the words ?progress? and ?modern? in their relation to the meaning of the ?March to the West? as found in journalistic texts of the XXth century press in the state of Mato Grosso (Brazil), more specifically in the newspaper ?O Estado de Mato Grosso?, in 1939-1940. As stated by Mariani (1997; 2001), the press is understood as a place where meanings can be observed. Through determination relations, the ?March to the West? is constantly linked to progress, a progress determined by largeness, wealth and light, while modernity is absent from the West. In the West, the March thus produces a meaning of both uncivilization and civilizing process. We observed how the words: ?March to the West?, ?progress? and ?modern? are used in the press in relation to other words. This was made through DSDs (Semantic Domains of Determination) of these expressions, constituted by the determination relations produced by the enunciative event. We present their meaning based on the notion of designation proposed by Guimarães (1995; 2002). Descriptions were made using rewriting and articulation procedures that helped us understand to what extent the abovementioned words determine and are determined by the meaning of the others

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modernidade progresso progress modernity enunciation enunciação

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