Interfaces entre a psicologia cultural e a literatura de cordel: o problema ético e estético da mediação semiótica

Abstract

This empirical research argues about the mediation function between cordelistas and their cordéis considering the processes of creation and artistic appreciation. In the review of Vygotsky's theory was characterized the ethical and aesthetic problems of the mediation function present in his writings. The central objective was to investigate emerging processes of mediation function in creative activity of cordéis. The secondary objectives included: 1) to characterize the mediation function according to Vigotski; 2) to discuss the conception of creative activity in Vigotski; 3) to discuss the function of the sign in the process of artistic creation; and 4) to discuss the adequacy of the method used in this study for the analysis of microgenetic processes of the mediation function in the art. Three cordelistas (A, B and C) residents of Alagoas state participated in that research. Three semistructured interviews were realized with each one of the cordelistas. The interviews were oriented from two methodological strategies correspondents to the processes of creation and appreciation of the cordéis. The material of analysis were the narratives of cordelistas A and B. The analysis of the narratives privileged the microgenetic configuration of information limited to each methodological strategy adopted. Resulted from this study that the mediation function on the creative activity of cordéis was related with the dynamic of complementarity and contradictoriness between dimensions configured on the cordelistas narratives. It was argued, lastly, that the revision of the ethical and aesthetic problems of mediation favored interpretations about the psychological functioning from the dynamic of social relations.