Representações sobre língua(s) e sobre si em narrativas de imigrantes venezuelanos no Oeste Catarinense

Abstract

This dissertation analyses representations about language(s) and the self in the narratives of Venezuelan immigrants in the West of Santa Catarina. A total of six Venezuelan immigrants, learners of the Portuguese language, whose sociocultural history (re)constitutes itself from the marks of forced migration, take part in this research in the municipality of Chapecó. The reflections concerning this investigation occur in the epistemological and analytical midstream of a field of research conducted with the help of the Nossa Senhora Aparecida Migrant Support Center, where immigrants in the process of learning the Portuguese language are found. In terms of its methodology, the qualitative research has demanded the construction of a discoursive corpus which was obtained by employing semi-structured oral interviews. The research problem lies within the questioning of how the narratives of Venezuelan immigrants in the course of migratory trajectories produce effects of meaning in the discourse and what representations about language(s) and the self stem from such a process. The assumption was that the representations also (un)veil the identificatory processes that cross the subject through discourse. As a theoretical framework, the research is inserted in the field of the Franco-Brazilian Discourse Analysis crossed by concepts of Psychoanalysis (PÊCHEUX, 2009; ORLANDI, 2005; CORACINI, 2015). From the analysis it has found Portunhol as a (symbolic) frontier language, based on the contributions of Sturza (2019a, 2019b). When it comes to the analysis concerning the discourse sequences of the corpus, it has been identified regularities in the languages permeated by a being-between-languages-cultures. The regularities enable, in the symbolic field, the identification of representations about language(s) and about the self which show metaphorical constructions and symbolic images of the language(s) and of the subjects in the midst of linguistic elements which expose, among others, the regularities resemblance, resistance, home, (in)security, possession, and crossing. It has been verified, based on the studies of Coracini (1997, 2000, 2003, 2015) that such regularities bear essential relation with the identificatory processes of the Venezuelan immigrant subjects since they constitute themselves by the dispersion as well as the heterogeneity related to the social-historical and ideological moment which is not only constitutive of the discourse but also of the relations of identification related to the participants.