Os modos de referir em textos multimodais: um estudo sobre a anáfora indireta nas tirinhas de Calvin

Abstract

This paper presents a study on the ways noted by the Indirect Anaphoras ( Marcuschi , 2005) in verbal- visual texts that enrich the possibilities for ( re) construction of the senses through elements of verbal and visual language . In light of this, this study will be from the theoretical perspective of Linguistics Textual, a social cognitive - interactional approach. The corpus consists of a selection of the genre strips, which has as main character a little boy named Calvin, name entitles these narratives created by American cartoonist Bill Watterson, exposed in the "Current" the New School Magazine and on the official site on the internet. About the indirect anaphoric relations, it can be said that there is a direct relationship between the antecedent (anchor) and the anaphoric term, which is introducing a new referent and the anaphoric relationship depends on an interpretation based on a calculation of inferential nature. Thus, it is considered that only the relations of lexical-semantic nature are not sufficient to explain the anaphoric relations and argues that these settings also depend on contextual and conceptual factors that allow the organized distribution of discourse objects, fulfilling a role important in textual progression. The results reinforce the relations established through the indirect anaphora and their anchors are not linked to the notion of correference and even it isn’t having this direct relationship, anchored in the textual universe, extrapolating the co-text and mobilizing a wide universe of cognitive strategies inherent in sociocultural interaction of the individual. The introduction of a new element in the text, even it not directly related to an antecedent, enables thematic continuity ensuring the textual progression.