Gramática sistêmico-funcional como quadro metodológico para análise de representações sociais

Abstract

This text establishes a dialogue between two theories from different areas of scientific knowledge. These theories are Social Representation Theory, which belongs to the Social Psychology field, and Systemic-Functional Grammar, which belongs to the Linguistics area. The general proposal of the present work intents to bring up to discussion the possibilities for the use of Systemic-Functional Grammar as an analytical method on social representation phenomena. Therefore, this study proposes the follow specific aims: a) to review the theoretical contribution of Social Representation Theory; b) to organize the theoretical assumption of Systemic-Functional Grammar; c) to discuss the intersection – common and opposite points – between the referred theories; and d) to demonstrate, in a textual sample, some limits and possibilities of Systemic-Functional analysis on the social representation phenomena. The four chapters, which constitute the text, present each specific aim, respectively. Then, the first chapter presents Social Representation Theory, its essential concepts and its theoretical development. The second chapter reviews the theoretical bases from Systemic-Functional Grammar, its language concept and its analytical resources. In its turn, the third chapter discusses the common points between the studied theories, as well as, the limits between them. The fourth chapter demonstrates the contact between the theories, through the analysis of the Senator Fernando Collor de Mello’s speech, in occasion of Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment trial process.