Produção sígnica por ratio difficilis em "O poente da bandeira" de Mia Couto

Abstract

The purpose of this reading of Mia Couto's aesthetic text in O Poente da Bandeira, a story published in the book Estórias Abensonhadas, adheres to the creative and unprecedented way of sign production, of iconic unconventional expressions in the sign production processes regulated by ratio difficilis. This way of producing the sign function was differentiated by Umberto Eco (2014) based on the classification of the signs of C. S. Peirce (2016), which classifies the metaphor as an icon, by the association it promotes with elements of another nature in the correspondence between the expression, image and content. The particular form of use of the Portuguese language, the reference of other Mozambican languages, the expressive devices in Mia Couto's literary production are elements of analysis to reach the form, senses and meanings present on the surface of the text and in its aesthetic, imaginative depth and discursive. Characteristics of language are pointed out, as marks of tradition and orality that appear as the search for the rescue of identity, in which language is the element of constitution, communication and belonging; as well as, complexity, plurisignification, innovation, intertextuality and everything else that constitutes the attractive elements of Mia Couto's literary language. ECO (2014, 2015), PEIRCE (2016), BARTHES (1973, 1989, 1990, 1992, 2001, 2007), CAVACAS (2015), BRUGIONI (2010, 2012) and RICOEUR (2000) are the main authors, whose theories we use in the realization of this study