Taking into account that the act of narrating presents a necessary meta-discoursive
reflexion about what is being narrated and that narrative presents a patteming or a
"schematism" responsible for maintaining the narrative paradigm order, this study
describes how narrators from Brazilian Amazon region configurate narrative tradition in
two different ways. The first way called "folk-tale" is characterized considering the fact that
narrators, when telling their stories, choose (i) to present frxed plots, which are commonshared,
(ii) to construct a high degree of distance from what is being narrated, (iii) to
necessarily present narrative structured in tenns of "conflict/resolutionn and {iv) to inscribe
narrative sequences in a wondering discoursive domain.
Narrators choose to configurate oral tradition in a way called "oral story" when they
(i) do not present a frxed plot, reconstructing oral traditional narrativas in a personal way
(ii) express their evaluations about what is been narrated, (iii) structure narrativa not
necessarily in tenns of "conflict/resolution", but in a way that "resolution" category is not
obrigatory, (iv) present the characters through a subjective perspectiva, showing their
internai processes (feelings, thoughts etc.) and (v) inscribe the narrative sequences in
other fictional domains.
The narrativas analysed in this thesis were collected by a group of researchers
from Universidade Federal do Pará and were published in three volumes. The analysis of
thirty narrativas allows us to conclude that narrators can linguistically configurate narrative
tradition in two ways: the first one, characterized by the fact that narrators privilege when
telling their stories the dimensions of repetition and stability; the second one, characterized
by the fact that narrators privilege when telling their stories the dimensions of difference
and instability.
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