The route narrative of novel police in the 70's: sanction cognitive or sanction pragmatic?

Abstract

This work is a result of a research of police novels sold in Brazil during the 70’s. The research corpus was constituted of twenty six books that were analyzed and compared trough a semiotic’s perspective. From the reading of these novels we’ve done a comparative analysis of the books and classified them in two types of police novel: those who presented in their narrative constitution a cognitive sanction and those who show a pragmatic sanction. In our analysis, we verified the route of each plot from the selected police novels, aiming to understand the reasons that lead to the choice on each one of the enunciators did to organize their narrative. We also tried to understand the implications that these choices brought to the outcome of it. Considering the same narrative route, we also intended to verify the elements that were responsible for the interest of the reader to a certain kind of text, the reason which leads them to be the best-sellers of the period. Finally, we made a comparative analysis between the two types of sanctions verifying which of them appeared more frequently and which fundamental differences they provoke to the final outcome of the novels. Keywords: novel; police; sanction; cognitive; pragmatic.