Intersubjective relationships in "extrair", a poem by Arnaldo Antunes

Abstract

This paper aims to study some meaning mechanisms related to intersubjective relationships in texts. Its methodology relies on French Semiotics, namely on contributions from Greimas, Zilberberg, Fiorin, and Tatit, on one hand, and on the intersubjective matrix by Coelho Jr. and Figueiredo on the other hand. Greimas main contributions to this work are related to both his generative process of meaning on the contents plane and the postulate of its junction with the expression plane. It follows the view from Zilberberg concerning the most abstract level of signification, as well as his proposed axiology (absolute, universe, apogee, and abyss values). From Fiorin it brings in the distinction among the various subjects of discourse, and from Tatit his praxeology which will enable this work to clearly distinguish among several modes of doing of the subjects of enunciation. Tatit also provides a new interpretation of the Greiamasian concept of event. Based on those grounds, this paper shall establish an opposition between the objective and the subjective fields that regulate interactions among different kinds of subjects. The poem "extrair" by Arnaldo Antunes has been chosen to validate these mechanisms. Outcomes from this analysis allow for a better understanding of the intersubjective machinery supporting an insurgent subject configuration as depicted by the narrator of the poem.