Miguilim - Revista Eletrônica do Netlli

The auto of the donkey: dramaticity in "O burrinho pedrês", by Guimarães Rosa

2024-04-12T20:51:42+00:00

The current paper aims an analysis of the dramaticity in Guimarães Rosa’s short story “O Burrinho Pedrês” from Sagarana (1946). In answer to José Condé, Rosa (1946) claims that the narrative is a kind of “non-profane play”. The present work purpose is analyze such categorization to the narrative, as demonstrating the formal aspects that can validate it or not. Underlying it, we return to questions around a constant tension and resistence lying upon a “sense of epic” and a “will of individuation” (Motta, 2022; 2023).

Woman on the road: Edith Wharton and the tourist trip report

2024-08-04T19:55:32+00:00

In the middle of the 20th century, the journey by car was transformed, figuratively, into an expression of masculine freedom, capable of encompassing man's existence as an essential part of the car-road relationship. However, although the public space has been socially constructed as a place of male occupation, history and literature show that woman has always been looking for their space. This fact is proven, for example, in the work A motor flight through France (1915), by the writer Edith Wharton, which shows that women also experienced the same feeling of freedom when using the car. In this sense, the objective of this article is to analyze how Wharton represents the female experience on the road from the cited work, in the light of the texts of Howard (2001), Luchezi (2010), Totten (2015), Serrano (2014), among others.

When body is rhythm and sex is the protagonist: homoeroticism in The Platonic Blow, by W. H. Auden

2024-07-18T05:42:28+00:00

This essay aims to analyze homoeroticism in The Platonic Blow, by W. H. Auden, considering the sexual encounter between the speaker and Bud. The Platonic Blow is a narrative poem composed of thirty-four quatrains, depicting and describing the sexual activity engaged by the speaker and an unknown man called Bud. The sexual act, then, presumes a fusion between those two men. In becoming one, they are no longer two distinct persons. Based on Paz’s (1996; 1973) and Bataille’s (1986) studies on erotism, the essay also includes contributions from Lacan’s (2020a; 2020b; 2005) thoughts on the phallus and Frappier-Mazur’s (1993) essay surrounding the obscene word in pornographic French literature from the eighteenth century.

The poetry of possession against property: the ready-mades of Oswald de Andrade and Blaise Cendrars

2024-06-04T13:39:49+00:00

This paper aims to analyze the dialogues between the works of Oswald de Andrade and Blaise Cendrars through the use of collage and ready-made, starting from the avant-garde method to the Antropofagia version. The first phase of Brazilian Modernism was marked by articulation with European Vanguard currents. We will examine the hypothesis that Oswald de Andrade 'swallowed' the aesthetics of Blaise Cendrars, creating a link between foreign trends and the modernist artistic project. For the comparative analysis of the aesthetic relations between the Brazilian poet and the avant-garde poet, we will consider the works Documentaires, Feuilles de Route, Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques and Pau-Brasil. For theoretical purposes, studies of avant-garde and modernist aesthetics will be considered.

Literary Teletandem/URCA: a virtual exchange proposal focused in literary experiences

2024-07-15T23:13:45+00:00

The present paper aims to present the preliminary analysis of a a Literary Teletandem (TTD-L) research at Universidade Regional do Cariri (URCA). At URCA, TTD-L is a pilot project developed in partnership with Georgetown University and John Hopkins University from 2021 to 2022. The research is divided between a qualitative analysis of audio segments from a mediation session with the partners, as well as a quantitative analysis focused on questionnaires answered by Brazilian partners. From these two approaches, which used the theoretical framework of Vygotsky, Telles, Salomão, Ramos e Carvalho, the research discovered the following results: a) difficulties faced by the partners in dealing with the literary text, b) interactions rupture due to the pandemic and c) literary text potential as linguistic nad cultural artifacts in TTD-L interactions.

Kasuo Ishiguro's inhuman distopia

2024-07-15T15:20:27+00:00

Listening in the healthcare sector is essential. Anamnesis or the “patient's story”, fundamental in medical work-up, consists of an interview with a health professional designed to obtain important elements for the diagnosis from the suffering subject. It is a brief and pragmatic biographical text, often converted into a standardized questionnaire, but which does not escape a degree of interpretative elaboration on the part of the interviewer. This reflects the trend towards mechanization of health care, where the distancing of the agents involved in the consultation compromises the possibility of a genuine dialogue between them, which can lead to an imbalance of power, with the predominance of the best equipped over the most vulnerable. In extreme situations, this asymmetry can lead to mechanisms of dehumanization, such as that denounced in the science fiction novel Never let me go, by Kazuo Ishiguro, where the intimate narrative of a caregiver in a hospital environment becomes a moving and inadvertent document of denunciation of the submission and silence of the subjects called “patients”, that is, in a fragile condition and without a voice. In this article, we use bioethics references (Chambers, Charon, Frank, Hayles) to discuss the narrative Medicine approach in this story, which aligns with the Science Fiction genre by speculatively problematizing the theme of human cloning.

Fantastic literature: readings on Rosa and Rowling

2024-05-17T03:17:38+00:00

This article constitutes an excerpt from the results of the research completed in the Master's Course of the Postgraduate Program in Language and Teaching, entitled "Rowling's Marvelous Meets Rosa's Fantastic in the Classroom," at Universidade Federal de Campina Grande. It discusses how the fantastic and marvelous elements are circumscribed in the works of João Guimarães Rosa and J.K. Rowling, as well as how they interact with each other and revisit elementary structures and categories of fairy tales, seeking to find links between literary tradition and mass literature. In this regard, the texts analyzed were the short stories "Menina de Lá" and "Os Irmãos Dagobé" by Guimarães, as well as "The Fountain of Fair Fortune" and "The Tale of the Three Brothers" by Rowling, given that both narratives explore fantastic and/or marvelous universes. We observed points of intersection between the types of fantasy explored by the authors, aiming to understand the possible paths of these narratives as they enhance mythical elements and archetypes within the text. Therefore, the work is built in light of the studies postulated by Ceserani (2006), Coelho (2000), Furtado (1980), Held (1980), Roas (2001; 2014), Rodrigues (1988), and Todorov (2014).

Readings of the Anthropocene in popular narratives: an analysis of the legend of the Curupira

2024-08-04T19:55:47+00:00

This work deals with the correlation between the legend of Curupira and the geological concept of Anthropocene, as well as addresses cultural variations of the legend and pedagogical possibilities involving Brazilian popular traditions and the Anthropocene. Based on this assumption, the general objective of this article is to analyze the representations of human actions in nature from the legend of the Curupira recorded by the historian Luís da Câmara Cascudo, considering possible repercussions in the current Brazilian socio-environmental context, its signs and cultural correlations. To do this, we seek to reflect critically on the concepts of Anthropocene and memory in the context of popular narratives based on tradition and orality; analyze the relevance and transformations of the literary debate about the impacts generated by human actions in nature; and to observe the unfolding of the narrative in written and audiovisual records based on the discussion about the contemporary environmental crisis. In addition, the work presents an analysis of the audiovisual adaptation of the legend of Curupira in the serial "Cidade Invisível", as well as an analysis of possible pedagogical approaches to the subjects discussed. Finally, the method used is based on a review of the theoretical literature about the concepts worked to interpret the narrative of Curupira.

Bios-graphies of a thousand stolen roses: a critical biographical reading of youth in Silviano Santiago

2024-08-04T19:55:57+00:00

This article aims to explain a reading of Mil rosas roubadas (2014) based on the concept of life-graphies (SANTIAGO, 2020) and critical biographical epistemology (SOUZA, 2002). In the book Fisiologia da Composição (Physiology of Composition), published in 2019 by critic Silviano Santiago, the so-called "homological relationship" between the author's body and writing in literature is brought to light by the concept of life-graphs, in which literature is a compositional process in which the body is inscribed in the form of words. Therefore, the reading of Thousand Stolen Roses (2014) carried out in this article was guided by the concept of life-graphics, relating the work to the author's youth and highlighting the graphs we found. To this end, we will use the book Physiology of Composition (2019) and the essay "A thousand stolen roses: the metaphor of (re)telling a life", by thinkers Pedro Henrique Alves de Medeiros and Edgar Cézar Nolasco, as a theoretical framework to conceptualize life-graphics, and we will also use the propositions of the novel itself to trace the relationship between life, body and inscription. Finally, our reflection is based on a critical biographical epistemology (SOUZA, 2002) that marks our thinking in relation to the composite nature of Silviano's literature. We therefore hope to highlight the relationship between the body and literature.

Decadent features: a reading of Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você

2024-07-03T01:48:25+00:00

In 2009, writer Luiz Ruffato published the novel Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você, whose protagonist, Serginho, from Minas Gerais, decides to migrate to Portugal after repeated failures. During the narrative, Portuguese characters are presented who, attached to a past of conquests, show difficulties in dealing with the reality in which they live. In view of this, the aim of this work is to verify the extent to which some of the Portuguese characters in Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você are characterized by a reality deficit and how, frequently in the narrative, Portugal is addressed with the label of a decadent country. We also analyzed the productivity of the dialogue with Fernando Pessoa for the decadent nature of the protagonist. To this end, the following literary texts were read and analyzed: Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você and the poem "Tabacaria", by Fernando Pessoa-Álvaro de Campos. In order to investigate the representation of Portugal as a decadent or peripheral country, we sought theoretical support from Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2003) - who, in the text "Entre Próspero e Caliban", states that since the 17th century Portugal has occupied a semi-peripheral position - Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (2003) and Eduardo Lourenço (2012). Laurent Jenny's theoretical formulations on intertextuality were indispensable in the analysis. The results point to the combination of decadent features in the novel: that of the Portuguese characters – which suggests Portugal's semi-peripheral position – and the decadent feature of the protagonist, the Brazilian, who, unemployed, goes to live on the outskirts of Lisbon and accepts work as a bricklayer's helper. Thus, aware of his failure, the protagonist, at the end of the novel, dialoguing with Pessoa-Campos' poem, goes into a tobacconist's shop to buy a cigarette, the only relief for someone who is aware that he has failed at everything.

At the mercy of the unspeakable: a reading of Ana Cristina Cesar's poetics in sight of the lacanian real

2024-08-04T19:56:31+00:00

Ana Cristina Cesar wrote in just a few years a vast work (approximately between 1964 and 1982), source of inexhaustible interpretation, a mysterious range of intense feelings sometimes disguised between the lines, sometimes shouted out in verse. This article seeks to approach the author’s poetic work by observing the figuration of the Real in her published and unpublished works, over the course of various moments in the poet's literary life, using a volume of Poética, a compilation of her complete poetic production, as a source of analysis. The conception of real used is that of Lacan, supported by readings of the author himself and two commentators on his concept, Badiou and Prigent. The article then starts from a brief presentation of Ana Cristina Cesar, followed by the explanation of the real that is used in the analysis, and, finally, a relationship is developed between the Lacanian psychoanalytic real read in the poetry of A. C. Cesar, through analyzes of six poems from different points in his career, from adolescence to adulthood.

Ut pictura poesis: the silence of Venus between Poliziano and Botticelli

2024-08-04T19:56:54+00:00

This article explores ut pictura poesis as a Renaissance art theory. Horace's famous verse, which compares the two arts, becomes a mantra among renaissance painters as a means of elevating painting to the status of poetry. Therefore, this investigation is carried out through a comparison between the work of Angelo Poliziano: Stanze per la giostra and the painting by Sandro Botticelli: The birth of Venus.

Nomadism and non-places: an analysis of the narrative space in Rastros do verão, by João Gilberto Noll

2024-08-04T19:57:07+00:00

Wandering subjects who walk through non-places, in other words, spaces that do not contemplate the identity, relational and historical character in the sense of anthropological place, according to Augè (1994), are frequent in João Gilberto Noll´s work. In Rastros do verão, originally published in 1986, we have an anonymous protagonist narrator who defines himself as someone who is always passing through, without luggage. Crossed by ephemeral relationships with other characters, also anonymous, this traveler amplifies everyday scenes while allowing himself to be carried away by chance. The central aim of this paper is the analysis of wandering, centered in an urban narrative space, in Rastros do verão, based on Augè (1994), Johnson (2009), Kristeva (1994) and Maffesoli (2001).

Of victims and executioners: polyphony in K.: relato de uma busca, by B. Kucinski

2024-08-04T19:57:15+00:00

The novel K.: relato de uma busca, by journalist and writer B. Kucinski, published by the first time in 2011, recounts the endless search by a father, the character K., for his daughter who "disappeared" during the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985). Such an arduous subject could not be narrated by just one voice of discourse or presented in a single textual genre, but rather through a manifestation with different voices of discourse, as exemplified by the enunciators of the chapters "Paixão, Compaixão", "Os desamparados" and "A cadela", the first of which is narrated by a sister who deals with being disowned by her family because she got involved with an executioner to save her brother, the second by a father who tells of the loss of his son and, finally, the third is narrated by an executioner of the military regime who, after kidnapping A. and her husband, is in charge of looking after her. and her husband is in charge of looking after Baleia, the couple's dog. In view of the above, the aim is to analyse Kucinski's (2016) work, anchored in Bakhtin's (2010) concept of "polyphony", in order to understand the way in which the different voices permeate the narrative, sometimes related to the victims and sometimes related to the executioners who appear in the novel.

Images and words: an analysis of The Handmaid's Tale's novel and series

2024-08-04T19:57:21+00:00

This research has as its object of study the work The Handmaid's Tale (1985), by Margaret Atwood, and its adaptation for television created by Bruce Miller. In this way, the work aims to discuss Hutcheon's adaptation theory (2011), studies on intermediality and cinematographic points of view, in addition to an analysis of silences and the presence of subalternity in the central character of the works. To this end, we intend to investigate, through literary analysis and intermedial analysis, how the narrator-protagonist sees her social position in the current context in which she finds herself, in addition to exposing some intertextualities present in the works. As a methodology for this work, we use a theoretical framework based on the study of literary theory, feminist literary criticism, gender studies and intermedial analyses, such as the studies of Mulvey (1975), to assist in the investigation of subalternity studies we use the contributions from Gayatri Spivak, and we used the work of Oliveira (2020) to analyze the characters’ silences. Thus, we intend to carry out, in addition to an analysis of the profile of the woman who narrates the book and series, The Handmaid's Tales, but also point out how women are subjugated by their specific role in societies, pointing out how the narrative focuses, and cinematographic films provide discussion about the positioning of women inside and outside the works.

Critical debates in Ensaios Literários: the emerging Brazilian literature according to Álvares de Azevedo and Bernardo Guimarães

2024-08-04T19:57:27+00:00

This article analyzes the critical essays “Alfred de Musset — Jacques Rolla”, by Álvares de Azevedo, and “Reflexões Sobre a Poesia Brasileira”, by Bernardo Guimarães. Both were published in the pages of the academic journal Ensaios Literários (1847 – 1850) from São Paulo and are part of the small but valuable critical repertoire of these authors. The article discusses the influence of French comparativism of the 19th century on the writers thought and how each one conceived Brazilian literature based on it, as well as what may have motivated critical divergences and convergences between them.

The earth and the graves: metaphors of memory in Voices from Chernobyl, by Svetlana Aleksiévitch

2024-08-04T19:58:10+00:00

The Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksiévitch is well known for bringing together in her books collections of oral reports from anonymous witnesses of historical landmarks in the Soviet Union. Critically opposing the official historiography, which privileges great characters and events, her work highlights memories of ordinary people who had their lives marked by these events. To convey these, the author's voice rarely appears textually in her books, and so the voices of the witnesses tell their own stories. However, for these isolated stories to gain the collective aspect necessary for the transmission of testimony, the author uses strategies for selecting and organizing the oral reports. In Voices from Chernobyl, one of these strategies is the repetition of certain images in different testimonies, such as the earth and the grave. As Aleida Assmann (2021) states, the earth and the grave are some of the many metaphors of memory, images that have become essential for the theoretical and conceptual understanding of remembrance. Understanding that memory and forgetting are central concerns in Aleksiévitch's work, I believe that the intentional repetition of these images becomes a way for the author to connect particular stories to a collective imagination about recurrence. Therefore, this work aims to analyze how the different appearances of these images in Voices of Chernobyl can be related to conceptual thinking, based on a brief archeology of the earth and the grave as metaphors for memory.

From Proteus to Icarus in Antonio Cicero: myth and philosophy in Brazilian contemporary poetry

2024-06-04T22:27:07+00:00

Since the beginnings of civilization, mythological figures permeated the popular imagination, as the gods were constantly evoked due to great deeds and fantastic situations unimaginable to a mortal. They were cultivated as a way of escaping reality, they were sublime beings who lived alongside the real world. In this way, mythology emerged to help man deal with possible human difficulties. In Antiquity, the origin of poetry was also attributed to deities, as was the Muses, who had a great influence on archaic poetry. This was considered sacred and was part of a society that did not yet have knowledge of writing as a way of preserving the past. Because of this, and due to such influence since Homer, it is inevitable to find remnants of great mythological deeds in modern poetry, since a considerable number of 19th and 20th century poets wrote about or cited the great deeds of the gods. Based on this, this article attempts to analyze the poems “Proteu”, published in the book A Cidade e os Livros (2002), and “Icaro”, published in the book Porventura (2012), evaluating their comparative-analytical compatibility with texts that they worked on the relationship between myth, poetry and philosophy, and the great mythological works, mainly Theogony, published probably between VIII and VII BC, by Hesiod and Metamorphosis, by Ovid, published in VIII BC.

The realist discourse in two short stories by Machado de Assis and Guy the Maupassant

2024-08-15T07:21:23+00:00

In this article we analyze short stories written by two authors identified to the realist aesthetics in literature: Machado de Assis and Guy de Maupassant. Our focus is on how realist discourse appears on both fictionists through a comparative perspective and through the observation of a formal realism present in the nineteenth-century short story as a genre. In this sense, we investigate the representation of a realist discourse on Machado de Assis’ O caso da vara and Maupassant’s Boule de Suif recurring to concepts such as apadrinhamento and decorum, and how they evidence winding questions about social relations and reveal the human condition with irony and mordacity. Even though those authors belong to distinct literary cultures (Brazilian, in Assis’ case, and French, in Maupassant’s), each one finds a way to unmask reality and show a situation through the lenses of subalternized and silenced social classes.

From cinema to audiobook: sharing media resources

2024-04-13T03:34:19+00:00

This essay is part of a research project that seeks to analyze, based on Intermediality, the boundaries between sound media products such as audiobooks and podcasts. One of the conclusions of this larger project is in the way fictional sound media use cinema features to create what we can understand as immersion in the narrative diegesis. In this essay, we show how cinema, as a type of multimodal media, becomes fundamental to the construction of features for fiction audiobooks, such as music and sound effects, as well as sound performance, a feature that, along with the rhythm, is the oldest in literary history. Using Lars Elleström’s model in The modalities of media II (2020) and analyzing different audiobooks, we establish some categories. For music: iconic, based on the similarity with non-musical elements (Mickey Mousing); symbolic, the conventions in rhythms and other musical elements; and indexical, which refers to the manifestation of time, geographical location, or specific social group. Sound effects are distinguished into depictional sounds (to illustrate actions), deictional sounds (to create ambiance), and descriptional sounds (by convention). The methodology is comparative, seeking similarities and differences between these sound media products. Our intention is to expand Elleström’s model so that it can support the understanding of these new—and not-so-new—qualified media types. In addition to Elleström’s theories, we also bring those of Agnes Petho, Jorgen Bruhn and André Bazin.

Analysis of an editorial object as a possibility of resistance to hate discourse and fightning disinformation

2024-05-17T03:15:26+00:00

This paper aims to analyze the publishing of the book KIT GAY: Atividades lúdicas para toda a família!, by Kael Vitorelo, in relation to the disinformations against the Escola Sem Homofobia (ESH) project, initiated in 2004, by the Frente Parlamentar Evangélica (FPE) and restarts in 2018, by then-presidential candidate Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Given the recent brazilian scenario, which presents itself saturated of conflicts between progressive and conservative social movements, especially in regarding to the identity agenda related to gender and sexuality, we seek to verify if this publication constitutes a form of resistance to the hate discourse against LGBT+ people. The hypotesys is that the book is an attempt to reverse the stigma. To this end, we will mobilize the theoritical framework of the French Dicourse Analysis (AD), especially the contributions of Maingueneau (2008) and of Krieg-Planque (2010, 2018). We treat the discourse present on the editorial piece in question, considering that It is composed also by other sayings and makes references to already-saids and to the other (that discourse which It enters in dispute). Thus, we built a discursive space that associates Bolsonaro and his FPE supporters' discourse and the discourse present on the book. We verified that the resistance to hate discourses occurs through the appeal to humor and irony, and that the appearance of almanac given to the book is an evidence of how the resistance discourse translates the other under the lens of irreverence to prove It preposterous. Therefore, we find a polemic that has persisted on digital media for more than 18 years and began to appear in the printed medium and that is meaningful for us to start thinking about the materiality on which the resistance discourses are inscribed in contemporary times.

A Linguistic variation in Enem tests (2009-2022): quantitative and thematic aspects

2024-05-17T03:15:53+00:00

Linguistic variation and change are inherent in all languages, and their understanding is necessary for speakers to adapt to the communicative situations they may encounter on a daily basis. It is up to schools, then, to reflect on these issues to make students proficient in their mother tongue. In turn, the National High School Examination is a national test that aims to assess basic education in the country and enable the admission of recent high school graduates to Higher Education Institutions. The present work aims to analyze the questions about variation and linguistic change in the tests of Languages, Codes and their Technologies of the Enem from 2009 to 2022 in the light of Sociolinguistics. Our hypothesis is that, in these 14 years that will be analyzed, the number of questions focused on variation and linguistic change in each test increased, as well as their approach was more diversified, extrapolating the clichés of some textbooks. Methodologically, the research is qualitative and quantitative, considering that, to collect the corpus to be analyzed, the questions were categorized and subsequently quantified. Our results indicated that there was a decrease in the number and diversity of questions, which demonstrates that our hypothesis was refuted.

Neological and ideological aspects in the lexicon's translation in web news

2024-08-04T19:55:15+00:00

Understanding the production and the journalistic translation as essential to disseminate the lexicon in a linguistic community, this study aims to analyze the strategies utilized in the translation of lexical units in journalistic opinion articles (stable sources of translation) contrasting with the strategies applied in the translation of news articles (unstable sources of translation). To this end, the study sought to investigate the “translation marks” in the translation of texts from Portuguese to Spanish of the newspapers El País and Folha de S. Paulo, in addition to discussing the neological and ideological aspects involved in the translation of such texts. We are guided by the works of Lara (2006), Borba (2006), Hernández Guerrero (2011), Bielsa (2016), and Simão e Stupiello (2017), to discuss the lexical matters involved in the journalistic translation’s sphere. To address the neological process, we rely on Correia and Almeida (2012), as well as Mittmann (1999) and Venuti (2002) to discursive matters addressed in the translation field. In the analysis, we started with the hypothesis that different textual typologies might influence the use of different translation strategies, as seen in the literature in the field. Using a contrastive methodology to analyze the translation of the lexicon in the two genres addressed (informative and opinion texts), the results suggested the possibility that the ideological perceptions of the author and the translator regarding the cultures for which they write may differ. We also observed something rarely seen in the sphere of translation, especially in journalism: the visibility of the translator manifested through translation markers.

As Language conceptions found in a Portuguese language teaching material: an analysis based on foucaultian concepts of utterance and enunciative function

2024-08-04T19:56:39+00:00

In this work, we used the theoretical and methodological reflections of Foucault (2008) to describe and analyze the different conceptions of language found in a Portuguese Language textbook for high school. This process allowed us to examine, in dialogue with the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC), the emergence, connection, incorporation, and manifestation of three distinct approaches to language as a scientific object: one influenced by Saussure, another by Jakobson, and a third by Chomsky. We also concluded that the BNCC does not encompass all scientific concepts of language and that there is an implicit presence of Saussurean theory in one of the competencies of the document.

The propagation of hate discourses against 'East Asians' in the covid-19 pandemic: an analysis of xenophobic discourses in online newspapers

2024-08-04T19:56:47+00:00

During the global health crisis caused by Covid-19, between 2020 and 2022, different discourses circulated in the media about the Chinese, who were accused of creating and spreading the virus around the world. Hostility towards the Chinese became more apparent during this period and other Asians of different nationalities (socially read as Chinese) also suffered from this rejection. The objective of the research was to analyze xenophobic discourses against ‘east Asians’ during the Covid-19 pandemic. The research is qualitative, descriptive-interpretative (Paiva, 2019), under the theoretical-methodological contribution of French discourse analysis from the perspective of Foucauldian discourse studies (Foucault, 2001, 2008, 2011) in interdisciplinary dialogue with other references from the human sciences (Derrida, 2003; Albuquerque Jr. 2016; Bauman, 2017; Di Cesare, 2020). After the analyses, we understand that xenophobic discourses against Chinese people were propagated in different spaces of circulation, from governmental to media, including civil society. We also conclude that groups of Brazilians of East Asian descent are also challenged by hostile discourses because they are socially read as Chinese. The study points to the need for deeper exploration of the theme in relation to the rhetoric of Brazilian hostility from a medium- and long-term historical perspective.

Teaching the portuguese language to the deaf in teacher training: a discussion in favor of an expanded language education

2024-06-04T20:22:51+00:00

This work aims to present a discussion on the results of a scientific initiation research aimed at surveying the provision of the teaching subject of written Portuguese for the deaf in teacher-training programs in Portuguese Language and, in Pedagogy courses, at Brazilian federal universities, to verify the design of these subjects and its implications for a teacher training aimed at developing an expanded linguistic education (Cavalcanti, 2013). Assuming configurations of qualitative research, of an interpretive (Moita Lopes, 1994) and exploratory nature, covering documentary and bibliographical studies (Gil, 2008), the work included: 1) collecting of subjects programs that include teaching of Portuguese for deafs, considering aforementioned courses; 2) interpretative study of the material collected in light of the theoretical framework of the research. From the analysis of the corpus, we found that language policies aimed at training teachers to teaching Portuguese to the deaf still present an unsatisfactory scenario, since, as the data showed, around 80% of federal public universities do not comply with what is determined by the Decree nº 5626 (Brasil, 2005) regarding the provision of this training. Furthermore, in terms of proposals sensitive to the linguistic and cultural specificities of deaf people, we defend the emergence of looking critically at the designs of disciplines and thinking about possible reformulations, anchoring, for example, the Portuguese teaching in studies about translanguaging and decoloniality. We believe that its assumptions can collaborate with teacher training that focuses on an expanded linguistic education, in order to guarantee, for deaf people, a more socially just education and break with the colonialities of being, knowledge, power and language.

The crime of feminicide through the lens of materialist discourse analysis: discursive charge analysis

2024-06-04T20:31:33+00:00

The main objective of this work is to identify the effects of meaning in circulation regarding the crime of feminicide. To do this, we will use the textual cartoon genre as support, which is very present in newspapers and magazines, and also in the digital sphere. This analysis will be carried out from the perspective of Materialist Discourse Analysis (DA). It is, above all, about observing, through the predicted corpus, the view that society takes on feminicide, considering that the accusations have a critical and reflective character regarding socially massive, and at least distorted, behaviors. Through the analyses, the functioning of heterogeneous discourses was observed, among these, the emancipatory discourse, which yearns for an effective change in archetypes pre-established by patriarchal, sexist and religious discourses, but which ends up being affiliated with these same discourses.

Discursive identity representation of the favelado in the funk song "Sou favela", by MC Bruninho and Vitinho Ferrari

2024-08-04T19:57:45+00:00

The present research proposes to analyze the discursive identity representation of the favelado in the lyrics of the funk “Sou Favela”, by MC Bruninho and Vitinho Ferrari. To accomplish this purpose, we base ourselves on the theory/method of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in the dialectical-relational approach, more specifically in the three-dimensional model (Fairclough, 2001). We also start from studies on discursive representation (Ferreira, 2010) and on identity (Woodward, 2014). Based on the three-dimensional model, we use the categories of analysis discursive practice, text and social practice: in discursive practice, we analyze production, distribution and consumption processes; in the textual practice, we analyzed the lexical items present in the song that point to the identity representation of the favela; and in social practice, we analyze the ideological and hegemonic bases of the identity representation of the favela subject in funk music. At the level of discursive practice, we realized that all individuals involved in the music production process come from peripheral communities, from the producers (DJ DG and Batidão Estronda), the music interpreters (MC Bruninho and Vitinho Ferrari), to the platform channel of streaming that was released (GR6 EXPLODE) and that weaves a network of practices and meanings about the representation of being from the favela for the consumer public. In the textual practice, lexicons and their semantic relations showed that the favelado is represented as a racialized, marginalized and economically poor subject. Finally, in social practice, we found ideological values of aporophobia and racism, as well as the capitalist hegemony and white supremacy in sustaining the analyzed representation.

Lexicon of hate and the production of memes: a study in light of Cognitive Linguistics

2024-08-04T19:57:56+00:00

This study aims to discuss the function of pejorative lexical items referring to left-wing parties and/or politicians in the creation of memes that fuel hate speech in the Brazilian political scene. To this end, it the following order: (i) identifies the lexical items that anaphorically and pejoratively recover left-wing parties and/or politicians; (ii) captures memes whose construction starts from these lexical items in focus; finally, (iii) explains the cognitive operations involved in creating memes, taking into account the inputs coming from pejorative lexical items referring to left-wing parties and/or politicians. As a theoretical orientation, this study brings together works on Hate Speech (Schäfer, Leivas and Santos, 2015), Memification of Hate (Solano, 2018), Cognitive Linguistics (Chiavegatto, 2009; Salomão, 1999; Miranda, 1999), Semantics of Frames (Filmore, 1977; Ferrari, 2013); Lexicon (Antunes, 2012; Laroca, 2003) and Meme (Marcuschi, 2002, 2008; Costa, 2005; Candido; Gomes, 2015). As methodological guidance, the principles of Corpus Linguistics (Sardinha, 2000) are adopted. The data for compiling the corpus are extracted from the work O País dos Petralhas (Azevedo, 2008). The results point to the POLÍTICA Macroframe as guiding the corpus. To construct hate speech, one of the strategies found was the creation of neologisms to identify Left-wing political agents. In order of frequency, we have: petralha, esquerdopata, petralhantra, petralhotário, petralhada, esquerdofrênico, esquerdiota. For the production of memes, the terms petralha e esquerdopata stand out on the Internet. It is worth noting that both hate speech and the hate memification process start from the linguistic sign, therefore, studies of human language play a fundamental role in the identification and functioning of these strategies. Therefore, we need to be attentive, in order to defend a safer public arena for everyone.