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TL;DR: In this article, the authors aim to discursively analyze the utterance "Military Intervention Now", which started to circulate intensely in social media from the protests held in Brazil in June 2013, and show that the phrase, in a game played with memory, updates the meanings of the Brazilian military regime (1964-1985), with the predominance of two stances: one in defense of militarism, with effects of erasing the meaning of dictatorship; and another one of repudiation and resistance to military intervention.
Abstract: In this article, we aim to discursively analyze the utterance “Military Intervention Now”, which started to circulate intensely in social media from the protests held in Brazil in June 2013. The study is theoretically supported by the Discourse Analysis (DA) as developed by Pêcheux, (1969; 1975; 1983), in addition to other theoretical contributions, such as history and studies on digital discourse. The corpus consisted of seven Discursive Sequences (DS) from discursive materialities on Facebook collected using the criterion of discursive regularity. The results show that the phrase “Military Intervention Now”, in a game played with memory, updates the meanings of the Brazilian military regime (1964-1985), with the predominance of two stances: one in defense of militarism, with effects of erasing the meanings of dictatorship; and another one of repudiation and resistance to military intervention, due to the memory effects that the dictatorship should never return.

4 citations


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TL;DR: Nossa pesquisa pretende investigar, no corpus em cena, as marcas discursivas presentes no texto decisório that levam a inferir that a decisão em tela coaduna-se com as ideologias that caracterizam o governo do presidente Jair Bolsonaro.
Abstract: A liberdade de aprender e ensinar é uma garantia consagrada pela Constituição Federal de 1988. Apesar disso, não raro, encontramos tentativas que buscam suprimir essa garantia constitucional por meio da força impositiva do Estado. É o caso da decisão judicial, tomada por uma desembargadora do Tribunal de Justiça de Santa Catarina, em que se permitiu que a deputada estadual Ana Caroline Campagnolo mantivesse seu canal informal de denúncias contra professores doutrinadores. Na decisão, a magistrada relatora não vislumbra ilegalidades na conduta da parlamentar. Nesse contexto, nossa pesquisa, numa conexão entre a Análise do Discurso francesa e o Direito, pretende investigar, no corpus em cena, as marcas discursivas presentes no texto decisório que levam a inferir que a decisão em tela coaduna-se com as ideologias que caracterizam o governo do presidente Jair Bolsonaro e, no limite, incentivam que se vigie e puna professores por expressarem resistência à nova ordem política.

2 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the discourse of the political woman in the politics of men is analyzed in the context of French Discourse Analysis, which aims to articulate verbal and nonverbal materiality in the historical constitution of the senses.
Abstract: This paper aims to reflect upon the discourse of the political woman in the politics of men, since female representation in the Brazilian public life is still minimal due to the historical exclusion of women in politics. To this end, we seek to understand how the discourse of the political woman in the politics of men is social and historically established drawing on the theoretical and methodological contributions of French Discourse Analysis (as derived from the works of M. Pêcheux) associated with the contributions of historical Semiology (as posited by J.-J. Courtine), which aims to articulate verbal and nonverbal materiality in the historical constitution of the senses. Our corpus consisted of Facebook posts by mayor candidate Alice Portugal, who was running for the City Hall in Salvador, State of Bahia, Brazil, in 2016. Despite the advancement of women’s rights, women's politics is still socially inscribed in patriarchal politics and, as such, is a discursive construction of resistance, struggle in search of empowerment and female representation in spaces of power.

1 citations


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TL;DR: The authors analyzed the comments on the note of regret by the left-wing party PSOL Carioca that was shared on her official Facebook account when her death became public and found that at least two discursive regularities show in the comments, each with opposite stances towards the role of the human rights activist, as the dividing practices subjectify the activist as either a "protector of criminals" or a "warrior".
Abstract: The death of Marielle Franco, Rio de Janeiro councilwoman and human rights activist, triggered discourse clashes on the web. On the one hand, her allies clamored for justice. On the other hand, critics mocked her and spread fake news that muffled the fact that she was brutally murdered. This article is the result of reflections at the master's and doctoral level in the Circle of Discussions on Discourse Analysis. Drawing on Foucauldian discourse analysis, it analyzes the constitution of the human rights activist individual taking into account Marielle Franco’s death as a discursive event. To this end, we archeogenealogically analyze the comments on the note of regret by the left-wing party PSOL Carioca that was shared on her official Facebook account when her death became public. At least two discursive regularities show in the comments, each with opposite stances towards the role of the human rights activist, as the dividing practices subjectify the activist as either a “protector of criminals” or a “warrior”.

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TL;DR: A luta por reconhecimento dos povos originarios faz parte deste processo de luta discursiva, com enfase na protecao da sua cultura e territorio as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: O reconhecimento social e juridico de direitos e garantias e parte do processo de avanco civilizatorio das sociedades contemporâneas e uma forma de combater as desigualdades sociais. A principal estrategia adotada pelos agentes coletivos que buscam a sua afirmacao e a construcao de estrategias discursivas na esfera publica, o que inclui a articulacao identitaria de grupos subalternizados na narrativa historica de seus paises. A luta por reconhecimento dos povos originarios faz parte deste processo de luta discursiva, com enfase na protecao da sua cultura e territorio. Submetidos a um modelo de organizacao social excludente desde o inicio da colonizacao, desde meados da decada de 1970 passaram a ter seus direitos reconhecidos formalmente no universo juridico, em especial pela aproximacao do discurso ambientalista e pela internacionalizacao das suas pautas. Entretanto, a predominância de praticas de racismo ambiental ainda prejudica o avanco material deste reconhecimento.