As metáforas da produção: reflexões sobre o discurso de operárias

Abstract

This paper investigates the discourse of a group of workers talking about the house organ of their enterprise and focuses on the metaphors they produce to express the conflicts arising out of the relationship between the situation at work and the way it is presented in the house organ.The study was grounded on theories that deal with metaphor as a conceptual phenomenon (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980.) and with language from a pragmatic point of view (Mey, 1987 (Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M., 1980) e língua de um ponto de vista pragmático (Mey, J. 1987