Abstract
ABSTRACT This article aims to discuss how the (co-)construction of discourse genre shows disputes over the (re)construction of social reality. To accomplish this, a theoretical review is done, bringing the Bakhtinian postulates closer to those of Critical Discourse Analysis, in the formulation of Critical Genre Analysis. A socio-educational group session (sessão de grupo socioeducativo) for men who have committed violence against women is analyzed, illustrating the discursive dispute regarding the constituent frame of the genre’s theme. The data analyzed was generated over 12 months of ethnographic research field work. The discussion allows us to perceive the open nature of language and practices, made intelligible through critical analysis of discourse genres, and points to essential openings in the political struggle for social change.
Highlights
From the perspective of critical discourse studies, it is believed that social practices and discursive practices respond to each other, since language is both a means and the result of broader social, discursive and ideological processes
In the following two sections, I discuss the relations between language and social practices
A dispute for a certain sense, within a certain sphere, is a dispute for certain axiological positions, for certain ways of orienting oneself to the world, to the other, and ofconstructing them. This relationship becomes substantial in the analysis of social changes, as the clash of different axiological positions, their negotiation, and the relative stabilization of certain meanings point to the possibility of processes of displacement in the axiological horizon of interlocutors, social groups and spheres of activities, and the very constitution of discursive genres
Summary
From the perspective of critical discourse studies, it is believed that social practices and discursive practices respond to each other, since language is both a means and the result of broader social, discursive and ideological processes. In this context, discursive genres – the realized aspect of practices – are the object of disputes in the thematic and stylistic-compositional scope that points to disputes about the practices themselves. Discursive genres – the realized aspect of practices – are the object of disputes in the thematic and stylistic-compositional scope that points to disputes about the practices themselves Such disputes are what this article deals with. I present the instances of generation and analysis of the data that composes the research, and I analyze an excerpt of the genre socio-educational group session, pointing out how its thematic configuration features disputes about the practices that compose the network of which this genre is part of
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