Sentimentos de insegurança na personagem Lenu, em A amiga genial, de Elena Ferrante:

uma abordagem sociocognitiva

Abstract

This study is located in the field of Textual Linguistics (TL), assuming a sociocognitivist approach, according to the theoretical principles of critical discourse studies by van Dijk (2012, 2016), which involve the relationship between language, discourse, context and cognition. The proposal aims to analyze scenes that show possible feelings of insecurity, presented by the character Lenu, in different moments of the literary narrative: A genial friend, by Elena Ferrante, based on the theory of context models. For this purpose, the category ‘The I-myself’ and its subcategories are used: a) the social role of subjects; and b) the relationships between the participants; and still, the category: ‘communicative actions/events or of another nature’. Methodologically, the study takes a qualitative approach, carried out through exploratory and bibliographic research. For the exploration of the phenomenon, the selection of twelve excerpts that constituted the corpus of analysis was carried out. It is concluded that Lenu’s insecurity identified from the context models, articulating the childhood and adolescence phase, constitutes a continuous and recurring characteristic in the character’s life.