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MEMORIES OF AN ACADEMIC PATH: A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ENUNCIATION ACTOR’S IN ACADEMIC MEMORIALS

ABSTRACT

The academic memorial seems to be a privileged object to examine simulacra and values related to the ways of acting in the Brazilian academic environment. When writing it, the researcher-professor re-elaborates on his professional and intellectual path in order to meet an institutional requirement, since a lot of open examinations for the post of university professor in Brazil request the writing of an academic memorial. Taking this into consideration, this work aims to analyze the image produced by the candidate-enunciator in his memorials, based on the proposals developed by Discini (2003, 2015) and Fiorin (2004, 2015), in order to focus on the enunciation actor in the context of Greimasian-based semiotics. Academic memorials from different areas and colleges at the University of São Paulo are compared, making it possible to verify their differences and similarities in the use of textual and discourse procedures in the construction of the enunciation actor. As a result, we perceive the image of a bold, innovative, competitive and cooperative researcher-professor in academic memorials in the Biological Sciences and the image of a critical, creative and slightly nonconformist researcher-professor in academic memorials in the Human Sciences.

academic memorial; enunciation actor; discursive semiotics

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