Little Yellow Riding Hood: a new meaning for an old story
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Little Red Riding Hood, Little Yellow Riding Hood, Discourse Analysis, Discoursive Polysemy, Children’s Literature.Abstract
Little Yellow Riding Hood is one of the rewritings of Little Red Riding Hood in which the difference breaks out in the discourse, producing new meanings - polysemy. The traditional subject-positions of the Wolf and Little Riding Hood are totally reversed due to the change in meaning of fear. These subjectpositions are analysed as well as the images that accompany them and that are maintained in the interdiscourse by paraphrastic rewritings. The Wolf, occupying the position of the dominator, with his characteristics of evil and aggressiveness; Little Riding Hood, occupying the position of the dominated, with her characteristics of ingenuousness and impotence, being fear the determiner of these positions. With the parody by Chico Buarque, these images are deconstructed and the meanings are dislocated through linguistic hints that become evident on the linguistic base; these bring forth the new image of Little Yellow Riding Hood, now strong and domineering and of the Wolf, now weak and dominated.Downloads
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