Genetic editorial rites on fandoms: the beta readers mediation

• Grant number: 14/13226-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2014
• End date: February 29, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Luciana Salazar Salgado
• Grantee: Amanda Guimarães
• Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Based on the theoretical framework of the Discourse Analysis of french heritage, especially on recent ramifications proposed by Dominique Maingueneau (2006, 2008, 2010), we analyze the creative and authorial questions on the "fan world", mobilizing the concepts of constituent speeches, genetic rites, and creative paratope, in order to study materials obtained on the website Archive of Our Own. The website Archive of Our Own belongs to the Organization for Transformative Works, an organization made from fans for fans with the objective of preserving the fandom's history - communities of fans with similar interests that interact and participate in fun activities through discussions or creative works, like the fanfictions (fiction written by fans) - and support any kind of work made by fans. Based on this, we try to contribute to the systematization of categories on the linguistic-discursive studies of fanfics, identifying the aspects of fandom that influence the writing of fanfics and verify how much of the authorship we can technically accredit to the fanfic writer (the author of fanfics), to the beta-reader (their editor/proofreader) and the source text, considering the three instances pointed by Dominique Maingueneau as constitutive of the creative paratope. We intend to verify how the intercourse crossing occurs in the material that was created, which is a work about a source text that has some of the elements rewritten and renovated on this fan culture. Finally, we are considering the relationship of those practices with the preservation and selection processes that, in western history, defined functions of editorial mediation (Chartier, 2007). (AU)