Dialogism and multilinguism in the reports and letters sent to the Jornal da Tarde in the Novel Capitães da Areia

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze dialogism and multilingualism in the news reports and letters sent to the "Jornal da Tarde," featured in the work Captains of the Sands by Jorge Amado, highlighting how the statements interact with each other and demonstrate different ideological constructions. Specifically, the study seeks to identify the interweaving of social voices in the news reports and letters within the structure of the novel, examine how social positions influence the construction and discursive interactions of the characters, and explore the dialogical characteristics of the utterances present in the narrative. The theoretical framework draws on the contributions of Bakhtin (2010, 2012) and Fiorin (2006) regarding dialogism and multilingualism in the novel, as well as Candido (2000) on literature and society, among others. The methodology consisted of a bibliographic review with an explanatory-exploratory nature and a qualitative approach. The results demonstrate that in the news reports and letters sent to the "Jornal da Tarde," a multiplicity of social voices can be observed, constructed from different socio-ideological positions, in which the characters appropriate the voices of others and engage in direct dialogue through responsive discourses that relate to the extraverbal contexts and the evaluative positions of the characters involved.