A reformulação dialógica de enunciados em situação de autoconfrontação

Abstract

The objective of this study is to present an analysis of the linguistic phenomenon called “repair”, which corresponds to the moment when the speaker realizes that he makes a mistake, and revisits the utterance to modify it on some level. The focus of this paper is to analyze when this phenomenon occurs in the materialization of speech, specifically in oral language. The purpose is to understand why the speaker makes a repair when he gives linguistic form to an idea, even when he masters the necessary language code. We will discuss this phenomenon in the specific situation of self-confrontation (cf. FAÏTA, 1996; CLOT, 2010), involving two higher education students who took part in an action aimed to develop the students´ activity. The audio-visual material resulting from the intervention was transcribed according to the norms of the NURC-SP project (PRETI, 1999). Therefore, we aimed to understand utterance repair self-confrontation situations. The theoretical basis for the analysis of the verbal material produced will be the relationship between thought, language and consciousness in Vygotsky (2009) and Bakhtin (1999), and previous studies on the utterance repair in Brazil, including Barros (1999) and Hilgert (1999). The results reveal that the repair goes beyond syntactic adequacy. It indicates it is difficult for the subject to discursively position himself in relation to the researcher and possibly in relation to himself.