Enunciative strategies in “Tão felizes” by Ivan Ângelo

Abstract

The short story “Tão Felizes”, by Ivan Angelo, is the object of analysis of this paper that uses French Semiotics as theoretical reference. The short story recreates the dialogue between a female subject and her husband, in the present tense, the day after a night party at which both were present. The text presents only the female voice, thus revealing the woman’s image of marriage and her husband. The aim of this paper is to analyze the enunciative strategies used by the enunciator of the text to lead his enunciatee to understand how the images of the husband and of marriage are constructed at the level of enunciated enunciation and thus re-dimensioned. According to French semiotics, it is the fiduciary contract that supports the regime of adhesion of the enunciatee. In order to apprehend the enunciator’s persuasive doing and the enunciatee’s interpretive doing, one needs to analyze the text’s manifested figurativeness, since it consists of one of the means by which the enunciatee’s adhesion is achieved, especially in literature, among whose properties one finds the constant review of the figurative veridiction contract.