Aspectos da organização interacional nas cartas pessoais compartilhadas entre Câmara Cascudo e Mário de Andrade

Abstract

The object of study of this Master’s thesis is the interaction established between Câmara Cascudo and Mário de Andrade through their personal correspondence. Given this focus, our general objective was to investigate aspects of the interactional organization of these letters and, specifically, to describe, analyze and interpret the generic purposes and composition of these personal letters’ text plans. In addition, we consider both the interventions that occur in the established interactions, plus the materialization of the dialogical sequences and the exchanges in these texts, as well as the nature and structure of the questions and answers therein. This study relies on the theories of Bakhtin (2003), Silva (2002), Silva (1997), Marcuschi (2005, 2008), Bazerman (2005), Andrade (2010), and Adam ([2008]2011), among others researchers, with regard to specific issues of the discursive / textual genre in focus. We also adopt textual and interactive research perspectives that base discussions primarily on the theoretical precepts of Conversational Analysis to address the general notions on which the study of verbal interaction in different situations are based. Along these lines, we prioritize theoretical assumptions derived from the studies of Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson ([1974] 2003), Marcuschi ([1986] 2003), Briz (2006), Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2006), Adam ([2008] 2011), Galvão (2011) and Galvão e Silva (2012), among others. Methodologically, the research is characterized as documentary, relying on an investigative approach that is both qualitative and inductive, as well as interpretative with regard to data analysis. The corpus of the investigation is comprised of 97 personal letters, part of the correspondence of Câmara Cascudo and Mário de Andrade, written during the period of 1924-1944, and later organized into a book, published in 2010. The analysis revealed that the letters are verbal interactions, which presented aspects of organization that showed fixed and occasional text plans in a discursive / textual genre, dialogical sequences that take place similar to what we observe in face-to-face situations, even though the participants are distant from one another. The results indicate that these occurrences were organized and mediated by exchanges and interventions in which the participants contribute to the construction of a common focus, by the establishment of dialogue pairs, mainly the manifestation of questions and answers. We understand, therefore, that writing a letter is a form of interaction in which the participants focus on many issues of common interest, sharing issues such as politics, literature, culture, among others, and with the goal of bringing each one into a present space.