Transforming Suffering into Storytelling and Storytelling into a New Life

Authors

  • Tatiana Piccardi EFLCH/Universidade Federal de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revmedica.v3.1165

Keywords:

Speech Act, Cure, Discourse, Identity, Language, Storytelling

Abstract

Through the analysis of narratives on sorrow and pain, this paper attempts to verify the extent to which speakers find relief and internal resources to rebuild their lives within their own processes of narration. The reflections derive from two correlated experiences: (i) observing speeches of parents belonging to a group that supports grieving parents and (ii) the fact that the researcher had the opportunity to act as a ghostwriter of an unusual story. My conclusion makes a few considerations on how these narratives can be deemed speech acts with curative effects that can promote life and reconstruct identities and how they act independently within the enunciative process. Austin’s (1975) speech act theory is the main theoretical prospect adopted with debates about identity and reflections over the relations involving language, literature, narrative, and health promoted by GENAM.

Author Biography

Tatiana Piccardi, EFLCH/Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Tatiana Piccardi possui doutorado em Filologia e Língua Portuguesa pela USP (São Paulo, Brasil) e pós-doutorado em Linguística pela Unicamp (Campinas, Brasil). É cofundadora e presidente da AHPAS (Associação Helena Piccardi de Andrade Silva), organização de apoio sociofamiliar a crianças e adolescentes com câncer. Como pesquisadora da Unifesp, com apoio Fapesp, desenvolve projeto de pesquisa intitulado “Abordagens pragmáticas sobre a linguagem”, com foco nas relações entre linguagem, ato de fala e saúde. Em 2010, organizou evento multi e transdisciplinar intitulado “O corpo que não adoece, arte e saúde em diálogo pela saúde integral”, em parceria com o Museu Casa das Rosas – Espaço Haroldo de Campos de Poesia e Literatura, São Paulo (SP-Brasil).

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Piccardi, T. (2011). "Research on Curative Speech Acts Observed through a Long-Term Initiative Involving Young Cancer Patients and Grieving Parents in São Paulo, Brazil". In: Bev Hogue; Anna Sugiyama. (Org.). Making Sense of Suffering: Theory, Practice, Representation (vol. 1, pp. 103-110). Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press.

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Published

2014-03-05

How to Cite

Piccardi, T. (2014). Transforming Suffering into Storytelling and Storytelling into a New Life. MEDICA REVIEW. International Medical Humanities Review Revista Internacional De Humanidades Médicas, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-revmedica.v3.1165

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2014)

Section

Research articles

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