Cícero em cena: um estudo retórico-semiótico de As Catilinárias

Translated title of the contribution: Cicero on stage: a rhetorical-semiotic study of As Catilinárias

Fernanda Elias Zucarelli

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Abstract

This thesis presents an analysis of the two first Catilinarias, whose production aimed at investigating how passions, as argumentative resources, collaborated to the construction of the truths produced in these speeches, made by Cicero. The Catilinarias was produced in 63 B. C., while he was a consul. For the thesis, we used a translation which was generously provided by Prof. Dr. José Dejalma Dezotti. So, some notes were produced, concerning to translation, in order to shed light on cultural, social, political and geographic particularities of it. For the analyses, a brief historical summary on rhetoric was organized, and it led to the study, from the translation by Prof. Dr. Adriano Scatolin, of Cicero's De Oratore, a rhetoric theory produced by Cicero himself, which was used for the elaboration of the first analysis. After that, a concise historical summary of French semiotics is presented, to show that new theories, somehow, relate with rhetoric, and, in some cases, they are fed by it. This thesis then took tensive semiotics for the second analysis proposed, once this theory is provided with resources that allow the investigation of passion's features in discourses. With these analyses, it is intended to suggest that Cicero, among the argumentative strategies used in the construction of his discourses, resorted to passions to provoke certain feelings in his interlocutors.
Translated title of the contributionCicero on stage: a rhetorical-semiotic study of As Catilinárias
Original languagePortuguese
Awarding Institution
  • Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
Supervisors/Advisors
  • Toledo Prado, João Batista, Supervisor, External person
Publication statusPublished - May 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Catiline orations
  • Tensive semiotics
  • Semiotics
  • Cicero
  • Rhetoric
  • Passions

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