Towards an enunciative study of samba de raiz: the language that testifies the brazilian culture

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https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v19i2.12786

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Agamben and Benveniste, Testimony and witness, Samba de raiz, Enunciation

Abstract

This text brings enunciative concepts discussed from the work O que resta de Auschwitz, in which Agamben (2008) defines testimony as the intimate relation between the sayable and the unsayable by the language. It is a double movement, whose (dis) encounter builds up the reality of witness: the impossibility of saying, which becomes existing through a possibility of speaking. Thus, it is through the notions of witness (AGAMBEN, 2008) and language in operation (BENVENISTE, 1970/2006) that this study is organized, more precisely, by the enunciative character of the language that circumscribes an expression of Brazilian culture: the samba de raiz. In the culture of samba, one questions: what is the relation between the witness and the testimony of the sambista who is marked as subject of his / her saying in the samba de raiz when, by using the language, brings in it the values ”‹”‹of a society? What is witnessed in this samba de raiz? In taking the enunciation as a guide to this reflection, the samba de raiz is not reduced to a statement in itself that is structured only with the forms of the language; what matters is its existence, the fact that the samba de raiz has a unique place in Brazilian culture.

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Author Biographies

Débora Facin, Universidade de Passo Fundo

Doutoranda em Letras pela Universidade de Passo Fundo (UPF); Mestre em Letras pela mesma Universidade; Especialista em Linguística e Ensino e em Leitura e Produção de Textos pela Universidade Comunitária Regional de Chapecó (Unochapecó); Graduada em Letras pela Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina (Unoesc); bolsista Capes.

Claudia Toldo, Universidade de Passo Fundo

Doutora em Linguística Aplicada pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, com Pós-doutorado em Linguística - estudos do texto pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Professora de Língua Portuguesa e Linguística do Curso de Letras da Universidade de Passo Fundo, RS, Brasil.  Professora e Coordenadora do PPGL ”“ Doutorado e Mestrado em Letras na mesma Universidade. Realiza pesquisas em Teorias da Enunciação, principalmente, estuda as reflexões teóricas de Émile Benveniste. Pesquisadora CNPq

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Published

2018-09-18

How to Cite

Facin, D., & Toldo, C. (2018). Towards an enunciative study of samba de raiz: the language that testifies the brazilian culture. Papers of Language and Society, 19(2), 231–249. https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v19i2.12786

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Vol. 19 No. 2 (2018)

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