Por um contínuo das formas de discurso representado

Abstract

This paper, which is based on an enunciative perspective of language studies, argues that the forms of represented discourse can be arranged in a continuum, in which these forms correspond to different degrees of absorption of the represented enunciation by the produced enunciation. To arrive at the mentioned continuum, this work was based on the study of 53 narrative sequences extracted from eight reports published in weekly informative magazines. In the left pole of the continuum, explicit direct discourse allows the speaker to delimit the boundary between the represented discourse and the produced discourse. Near this pole, implicit direct discourse brings a speech of ample knowledge, but without identification of the person responsible for it. Near the right pole, implicit indirect discourse dilutes the boundary between the produced and the represented discourses, allowing only through context the identification of the voices of the speakers. At the right pole, explicit indirect discourse erases all vestiges of the represented enunciation. In this form, there is only the produced enunciation.