Cataphoric strategies in Amazonian narratives: implications for the construction of the topical and textual chain

Abstract This article aims to analyze cataphoretic strategies mobilized in narratives affiliated to the universe of the legendary Amazon, observing, according to the theories about the reference, the way in which these strategies anticipate and project referring to being put in the textual chain. It takes, as theoretical reference, postulations by Tomasello (2003), Marcuschi (2007), Koch (1999, 2002, 2004) and Moura (2013). According to the theoretical postulates, it considers the reference a discursive, sociocognitive and sociointeractive activity, by which we reconstruct in language, beings, objects and events of the biossocial universe. Thereunto, reality is constructed by the way we act sociocognitively about this universe (KOCH, 2004). The corpus in analysis consists of 5 (five) excerpts from narratives of Boto, Cobra, Matintaperera and Curupira. The analysis reaffirms the premise the cataphoric strategies are tributary to sociocognitive and cultural processes in circulation in the context in which the narratives previously mentioned circulate and are produced.