Sherlock Holmes: the dialogical constituition of the subject (and) of the television series

• Grant number: 13/26027-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2014
• End date: December 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Philosophy of Language
• Principal Investigator: Luciane de Paula
• Grantee: Marcela Barchi Paglione
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The british television show Sherlock counts with the recreation of the characters and the plot of the book series centered in the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which are originally Conan Doyle's, for now-a-days so that be kept a interdiscursive/intertextuality relation between the two discourses. This project proposes to analyze the dialog taken between the two discourses, focusing on the construction of the subject Sherlock, more specifically on his relation to the antagonist Jim Moriarty. To do so, there will be used the concepts of subject, ideological sign, genre, utterance and dialogism according to what is discussed by the Bakhtin, Medvedev, Volochinov Circle, to comprehend how the constitution of the discursive hero of the television series is constructed, considering its shift over time and across genres - from the detective novel of the nineteenth century to the contemporary television series.