Ardis da palavra cerceada: o discurso tático: processos de significação em romances portugueses da década de 60

Abstract

In this study, we examine ways of production and dissemination of meanings in two portuguese novels of the 60s Maina Mendes (1969), by Maria Velho da Costa, and A noite e o riso (1969), by Nuno Bragança. Produced in a dictatorial period, these works point to this context, although not mentioning it directly, acting as a delicate instrument of combat. To this end, these novels utilize resources that rely on different processes of signification, through which they reveal, in a sinuous and not rarely cynical way, a reality that could not be referred to and much less criticized explicitly. The analysis carried out focuses on these processes in order to observe how they act as triggers of a subtextual level of political nuance, helping to configure what we call tactical discourse . The proposed analysis is supported by literary and linguistic studies, as well as some theoretical formulations form the social science.