Punctuation as a stylistic resource in the short - short story “Fosso do som ”, by João Gilberto Noll

Abstract

The main purposes of this article are to analyze and to describe the procedure through which Portuguese linguistic rules about punctuation may be disarranged in João Gilberto Noll’s short-short story called “Fosso do som”, that is part of his work Mínimos, Múltiplos, Comuns. We consider that this process works as a stylistic resource which contributes to structuring the narrative’s poetic plot.  Moreover,  having  in  mind  the  misuse  of  some  grammatical  rules,  we will analyze the text’s syntactic structure which has resulted from verb-phrase ellipsis and also from prose structure itself, according to the Russian formalism.