A construção da identidade marginal no livro Graduado em marginalidade : a linguística sistêmico-funcional como ferramenta aos estudos críticos

Abstract

This dissertation developed at LAEL in PUC/SP is inserted into the research area DIRECT em direção à Linguagem do Trabalho . The theoretical framework is the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) which is here used to discuss the book Graduado em Marginalidade by Sacolinha, writer and resident of a periphery. The objective is to understand the changing of identity in the main character of the novel. Based on the experiential component of the ideational metafunction (Halliday 1994), I investigate the way the lexicogrammatical choices reveal the changing of identity of the young Burdão who becomes a criminal in the course of the novel. The concept of Indisciplinary Applied Linguistics (LA) acting in the contemporaneity is key for this research, for understanding the political role of the researcher. The Applied Linguistics emerges as of great interest in the studies of the language in use and points out that an applied linguist conducting one s study must be critical. This research also contributes to discussions about anti-language (Halliday 1982), showing that the reconstruction of the identity of excluded individuals, can be in an antisociety environment, as what happens to Burdão. The analyzes are performed with the support of the methodological tools of Corpus Linguistics (CL), through the computational programme WordSmith Tools (Scott 2008)