Discursive Memory Research Articles

O político da linguagem em Special, de Lizzo: uma análise semântico-enunciativa

This descriptive-interpretative study analyzes the functioning of the political aspect of language in the translation of the composition Special, interpreted by Lizzo. It is based on the framework of the Historical Semantics of Enunciation (Guimarães, 2002, 2006, 2007b, 2018). Through the description of the enunciative space and the argumentative orientation, it was found that the political aspect is manifested throughout the enunciation, by the establishment of discursive memories related to racism, fatphobia, media, social exclusion, self-acceptance and Lizzo’s own history/path. These statements intertwine, retracing and re-signifying, transversely, the possibilities of constructed meanings. The political meaning is evidenced by the struggle and constant effort of the Speaker to define her space in the world, as well as the space of the minoritized groups (fat people, black people, and women) that she represents through self-affirmations, which challenge the established hierarchy and other exclusionary representations.

Le verdissement de la presse. La néologie terminologique entre métaphore et manipulation

The Greening of the Press. Terminological Neology between Metaphor and Manipulation. Through the analysis of Cop26 eco-political discourses, collected from the newspapers Le Monde, Libération, Le Devoir and La Presse, the aim of the contribution is to propose a systematisation of ecological green. Rooted in political terminology while used in a diplomatic and mediatic context, the colour provokes a counter-discourse that calls into question accusations of greenwashing. The referential domain linked to green is largely that of the energy crisis on the one hand, and the opportunities of a sustainable approach to global economy on the other, themes analysed as semantic preferences of the lexeme, as well as discursive contexts that evoke promise/hope or deception/catastrophe. The synchronic perspective is chosen to probe the topicality of environmental lexis in journalistic contexts, whose stylistic and creative turns of phrase also contribute to enriching the specialised terminology, and to shape the double perception of the colour in the collective discursive memory. Keywords: Neology, ecological technolect, journalistic discourse, anglicisms

A manchete de “estupro culposo” e o surgimento de um acontecimento discursivo

Affiliated with the theoretical-methodological perspectives of discourse analysis ini-tiated by Pêcheux (1997, 2002) in France, and Orlandi (1999, 2001, 2016) in Brazil, this paper aims to reflect on the effects of meaning attributed to the expression “guilty” conveyed in a piece of news by The Intercept Brasil newspaper. Therefore, we analyze to what extent the relationship between discursive memory and the event shown by the mentioned headline can bring to light a discursive event. The corpus consists of clippings of posts made on the social platform Instagram shortly after the publication of the mentioned headline. Finally, we hope that such reflections can contribute to the understanding of how discursively the meanings of statements work in relation to subjects and memory.

O feminino no discurso policial militar: da “ordem unida” ao “espírito de corpo”

In this article we seek to reflect on the ways in which the female body was represented and constructed in the military police discourse. The corpuschosen for this analysis was an article published in the newspaper “A Tarde” in 1990, which portrayed the training of the first women to join the ranks of the Military Police of Bahia (PMBA) at its beginning. We employ materialist discourse analysis (DA) along the lines of Michel Pêcheux as a theoretical and methodological contribution. We reflect, therefore, on the ways in which the female body was rendered discursive, based on norms, rules and military police aesthetics. We therefore highlight, through discursive memory, the role of historicity and the concept of subjecting the subject, crossed by language and history and questioned by ideology. The bodies of women joining that Corporation were shaped through the incorporation of military values and interdictions, establishing “what could or could not be said” by public security agents.

Discurso e pré-construídos no periódico brasileiro Em Aberto (1985): modos de funcionar de uma memória discursiva

This work analyzes the interdiscourse in the modes of functioning of a discursive memory, focusing on discourses in the fourth issue of Em Aberto journal. From this issue published in 1985, the journal focused its themes on educational issues debated in the constituent process, which culminated in the education chapter of the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988. Thus, the research corpus is composed of statements extracted from the introduction of numbers 25 to 28, which make up the fourth Em Aberto issue. Through discursive strategies based on syntactic fitting and transversal discourse and on a proper care of the censorship memories from the dictatorship period, the preconstructed bring paraphrases that soften the clashes contextualization, while at the same time showing an anchorage in the themes organized by Brazilian educators through the Bra-zilian Education Conferences

Metaphors of cultural diversity at UNESCO

AbstractThis paper analyses metaphors and analogies ofcultural diversityat UNESCO in a discursive and rhetorical-argumentative framework, to answer the following question: How do these rhetorical devices play a legitimizing role when introducing a new keyword into the public sphere? Conventional and creative metaphors are analyzed separately to examine if they represent different legitimization strategies. Conventional metaphors and analogies include variations ontreasure, heritage, andbiodiversity; creative metaphors include cultural diversity as aliving treasureand aRainbow River. The findings suggest that thewealthmetaphor fulfills an evaluative meliorative function, while theheritagemetaphor constructs a collective identity devoid of internal conflict, thereby depoliticizing the concept of cultural diversity. Thebiodiversityanalogy further depoliticizes cultural diversity via naturalization and the invocation of the authority of science. Legitimization is also achieved by invoking past discourse and shared knowledge, and by tapping into UNESCO’s “discursive memory.” In contrast, the creative metaphorsliving treasureandRainbow Riverplay a different argumentative role: they offer a rhetorical solution of coexistence to two contradicting views on culture; one as a static, closed entity to be protected from extinction, and the other as a changing, dynamic process. They do so by fusing both views, represented by different metaphors, into one creative metaphor.

The Semantic-Discursive Status of comme je l’ai dit ‘as I said’

The current paper examines the function of a specific construction comme je l’ai dit and its role in a particular type of oral discourse. The phrase occurs with high frequency in an established discursive genre, namely, debates in the European Parliament (EP). It is presented as a parenthetic construction, including elements with an anaphoric function, and endowed with a specific discursive aim. In order to better understand the raison d’être of this syntactically autonomous form in the specialized corpus, a mixed semantic-discursive approach is adopted. The aim of the study is to highlight the main properties of the construction bearing a particular functionality and to specify its status in discourse from the perspective of the active interlocutor.Given its rather simple morphological paradigm, its rather stereotypical enlargements, and its easy mobility, comme je l’ai dit reveals certain specificities of the referential process. The reference of the anadeictic type causes a sort of “duplication” of the object of discourse and also its reconfiguration. The return to the already said, with the aim of re-modeling it, is in fact accompanied by a re-saying, a repetition of the locutor’s own speech.The interrupting, the going back, the reworking and advancing, involved in the use of the analysed construction, seem to have several implications. The presence of comme je l’ai dit is justified by the speaker’s intention to construct relevant discourse that takes into account intralocutive and interlocutive dialogism. The interruption followed by a relaunch is a signal that redirects the attention of the interlocutor, while the repetition, which is a reminder of the already said, preserves the continuity of the discourse.The two processes set up by comme je l’ai dit, anaphoric reference and repetition, have the function of ensuring the coherence and the continuity of ongoing discourse through the tradeoff between saying, repeating and discursive memory. The importance of adjustments between speaker and interlocutor is the basis of the chosen discursive strategy. The functional perspective brings out the interpersonal aspect of the referential procedure.

The humour of Brazilian northeastern’s anthroponomy

This article aims to analyze the functioning of Northeastern names as elements of humor in virtual texts. The corpus of analysis consists of two posts of northeastern humor profiles on social network Instagram: Suricate Seboso (greasy suricate) and Bode Gaiato (mocking goat). The analytical process considers Discourse Analysis theoretical premises and considers concepts such as discursive memory, as in Courtine (1999, 2014), Robin (2016) and Paveau (2005) and discursive ethos, as in Maingueneau (2008a, 2018, 2020). Since these notions are directly linked to anthroponomic onomastics regarding historical and social facts related to language, I also consider the work by Leite de Vasconcelos (1928) as organized in Carvalhinhos (2007). The conclusions point to a functioning of the Northeastern names in this type of discourse as elements of humor linked to different memories, which present a shift in the naming processes, for example by updating patronymics.

Circonscrire le discours de haine numérique. Processus argumentatifs, idéologies et mémoires discursives

This paper aims to characterize the discursive processes of hate speech, direct or hidden, and to analyze how digital practices could affect them. We anchor our reflection in the framework of the role of power relations and ideologies that determine hate speech through the notions of preserved ethos and "discursive memory". In this sense, our analyses involve a critical argumentative and sociolinguistic approach to discourse. In such a perspective, circulating ideologies are to be grasped from the point of view of discursive struggles and power relations. Our analysis will be based on a corpus of comments posted in response to a publication on the Facebook page "Tous contre l'Homophobie", pleading for the right to adoption for homosexual couples.

Individual discursive memory practices: experience of a family historical research

Individual discursive memory practices: experience of a family historical research

DISCURSIVIDADES DA REFORMA DA PREVIDÊNCIA NA REDE VIRTUAL

Este trabalho objetiva compreender o funcionamento discursivo da Reforma da Previdência (RP) em mídias digitais, considerando as redes interdiscursivas e as formas de significação no ciberespaço. Como embasamento teórico-metodológico, tomamos a Análise do Discurso (AD) concebida por Pêcheux e as discussões estabelecidas por seus seguidores. Especificamente, neste artigo mobilizamos as noções teóricas de sujeito, interdiscurso, memória discursiva e silenciamento, que serão nossas categorias analíticas. O corpus constitui-se de recortes parciais de notícias publicadas em maio de 2019, sendo uma do site oficial do governo federal e três publicadas nos webjornais O Globo, Estadão e GGN. Os gestos de análises se dão no batimento descrição/interpretação (PÊCHEUX, 2015), no intuito de buscar as discursividades inscritas nas materialidades. Os resultados mostram uma movimentação de sentidos e posições-sujeito, dadas as circulações-confronto que se instauram na rede acerca da RP, pois esta é discursivizada pela FD estatal e pela grande mídia com efeitos de benefícios aos trabalhadores. Entretanto, também funciona nas mídias digitais o discurso de resistência, já que nos ditos dos supostos benefícios, se inscrevem os não ditos de defesa dos interesses da classe empresarial e de perdas impostas à classe trabalhadora.

MEMÓRIA DISCURSIVA: A RESSIGNIFICAÇÃO DOS DITADOS POPULARES EM LETRAS DE MÚSICA BRASILEIRAS COMO FORMA DE CRITICAR OS SUJEITOS EM SEUS DIFERENTES PAPÉIS SOCIAIS

The discourse is the result of a game of effects of meaning in which different positions of subject dialogue, weaving a new discourse inscribed historically, socially and ideologically. When we are facing a new event, we make use of something that has already been said at a given time and place. However, the subject-enunciator resignifies this way of saying to take that discourse, which is collective, as something of an individual character. And its purpose is to criticize the behavior of the subjects in their different social roles. Therefore, the subject feels the source of a saying that is social and historical. Therefore, this work aims to analyze the functioning of discursive memory in Brazilian lyrics that use proverbs. For this, we used mainly the discursive theories on discourse and discursive memory by Pêcheux (1988; 2010) and Orlandi (2007).

“MAS ELE NUNCA ME BATEU”: EFEITOS DE SENTIDO EM CIRCULAÇÃO NO NOME DE UMA PÁGINA DO INSTAGRAM

Daily life consists in a multiple of practices that work between repetition and modification in words/attitudes, showing that there is no single and discursively individualized subject, cause they are positions inscribed in networks of affiliation of meanings, resonating effects. In Brazilian society, crystallized sayings circulate in the order of what has already been said, which are presented as discursive generics, meaning through the necessary relationship with the discursive memory. Seeking to reflect on one of these in relation to gender violence, we selected the page @maselenuncamebateu to analyze how the slip of the nomination inscribes a saying in other meanings, in the order of problematizing the formerly significant discursive functioning on violence(s)

A luta pelo poder dizer “impeachment” e “golpe” na narrativa midiática do impedimento de Dilma Rousseff

O processo de impedimento de Dilma Rousseff foi um dos acontecimentos históricos mais emblemáticos e tensos de nossa história política recente, sendo marcado por uma luta acirrada pelo poder e pelo poder dizer. Diante desse confronto discursivo, surgiu o objetivo central da presente pesquisa, que é analisar os processos de designação desse acontecimento histórico na narrativa midiática do Jornal O Globo e das revistas Veja e Carta Capital, em suas versões online, observando os funcionamentos discursivos que produziram os sentidos de legalidade (efeito parafrástico) e de golpe (efeito metafórico), para o termo “impeachment”. Para tanto, filiamo-nos à teoria da Análise de Discurso Pecheuxtiana, a partir da qual desenvolvemos nossos gestos de análise sobre o funcionamento da memória discursiva nas narrativas midiáticas dos referidos órgãos de imprensa. Para efeitos de conclusão, podemos dizer que a narrativa midiática produzida sobre o evento de 2016 foi determinada por um jogo de forças que acabou institucionalizando o discurso da legalidade, o qual foi construído, essencialmente, por meio do funcionamento da paráfrase discursiva, que (re)atualizou os saberes da FD do impeachment, cristalizados no imaginário social brasileiro, após o processo de impeachment de Collor. Por seu turno, a narrativa midiática do golpe foi construída, essencialmente, por meio do efeito metafórico, que produziu a deriva dos sentidos em torno do significante “impeachment” que, em meio ao jogo de forças existentes, gradativamente, tem se descolado do sentido de legalidade e tem funcionado como paráfrase de golpe.

DEPENDÊNCIA CULTURAL E MEMÓRIA DO ENSINO DE LÍNGUAS E LITERATURAS ESTRANGEIRAS NO BRASIL

RESUMO Neste artigo discutimos a problemática da dependência cultural na memória discursiva que atravessa a relação entre o ensino de línguas e de literaturas estrangeiras no Brasil, com ênfase sobre o lugar singular ocupado pelo espanhol e as literaturas hispânicas neste contexto. Nossa investigação focaliza arquivos históricos do Colégio Pedro II, considerado escola-modelo da educação nacional desde o século XIX até meados do século XX.

Discursos preconceituosos, corpos discriminados: O estranho espelho de “quem quiser vir ao Brasil fazer sexo com mulher, fique à vontade" – diz Bolsonaro

Este trabalho está filiado à Análise de Discurso e aos autores Pêcheux, Foucault e Courtine. “Quem quiser vir ao Brasil fazer sexo com mulher, fique à vontade” e “Não podemos ser país do mundo gay, temos família”, afirmações de Jair Messias Bolsonaro, durante café da manhã com jornalistas, em 25 de abril de 2019, em Brasília, são enunciados de nossas análises. Argumentamos em relação à expressão fique à vontade que abre fissuras na imagem da mulher brasileira e a simboliza ao turismo sexual do país. A expressão traz a liberdade ao homem turista heterossexual como política de sentido para o turismo sexual e a negação para a sexualidade do homem homossexual, como exclusão sexista e afirmação homofóbica. O discurso de Bolsonaro corrobora com a imagem de Brasil turístico na publicidade da EMBRATUR 2019. Com isso, passamos a observar marcas de regularidade do verbal (“X” está à disposição dos turistas. “Y”, não.) em algumas peças publicitárias que constroem percursos de leitura pelo funcionamento da formação discursiva, da memória discursiva e de lugares de memória, que veiculam um Brasil destino turístico pelas atrações turísticas e não pelo sexo e pela homofobia. Desse modo, o imaginário presidencial atual sobre o turismo brasileiro é por meio de exploração do corpo da mulher brasileira e de negação da homossexualidade.

Remembering and Forgetting the Last War: Discursive Memory of the Sino-Vietnamese War in China and Vietnam

AbstractThe year 2019 marked the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979. Making use of published and unpublished Chinese, Vietnamese, and English sources, this article traces the tensions between official and popular memories of the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 in China and Vietnam, respectively. We argue that these tensions existed because the development of the official Chinese and Vietnamese memories of the war largely mirrored each other. Between 1991 and roughly 2006, when bilateral relations between the countries improved, both Beijing and Hanoi claimed victory for their side while simultaneously downplaying the bloodshed, tragedy, and loss experienced during the war. However, they have reacted to the rise of popular memories since the early 2000s in very different ways. While Beijing walks a thin line between accommodating appeals for greater recognition of the sacrifices made by ordinary soldiers without provoking social discontent with the political system, Hanoi has been more successful in mobilising Vietnamese popular memory of the war to strike a measured nationalistic response to China. How China and Vietnam remember and downplay the Sino-Vietnamese War points to the bigger picture of the sensitivity of bilateral relations to historical memory in Asia. In particular, historical memory shapes how a country perceives external threats and opportunities, while historical memory is created, suppressed, and re-created as international relations evolve.

PRODUCTION CONDITIONS AND BIOGRAPHY: The notion of humanization in the historical constitution of genre

This article relates the notion of production conditions, as defined by the French Discourse Analysis, and the history of the constitution of biographical genres as linguistic materiality. The aim is to understand how the production conditions, by including the subject and circumstances, and producing images about the present and the past of characters, build a notion of humanization in each moment of history, considering the main biographical texts cited by historians of the genre. Thus, we seek to verify how, despite the transparency with which the word "humanization" has been used in studies in the area of Communication, this notion is the result of imaginary projections built by ideology and based on the discursive memory of biographical and journalistic genres.
 KEYWORDS: Humanization; Production conditions; Discourse; Biographical genres.

As estratégias argumentativas do regime militar em Atos Institucionais

Com o objetivo de desvelar as principais estratégias argumentativas utilizadas pela ditadura militar brasileira (1964-85) a partir de seus 17 Atos Institucionais (AIs), este estudo se ancora na Teoria da argumentação, desde a Nova retórica (PERELMAN; TYTECA, 2005), e na Análise de Discurso de filiação pecheutiana (PÊCHEUX, 1988; ORLANDI, 2012; COURTINE, 2019; INDURSKY, 2013). Nessa perspectiva, a análise do corpus se direciona para a dimensão argumentativa das memórias discursivas (VITALE, 2015), cujos mecanismos têm a função de provocar a adesão a determinados dizeres. Seus resultados indicam que o Estado militar recorreu à estratégia da definição ao nomear a destituição do presidente João Goulart de autêntica revolução, afastando, com isso, a ideia de ação ilegítima, além de ter utilizado a técnica de inclusão da parte no todo, por meio da qual apresenta a tomada do poder como um movimento civil-militar, e a de vínculo causal, quando justifica a ação como necessária para salvar o Brasil do comunismo. As análises apontam ainda para uma série de deslizamentos de sentidos, o que comprova que a língua funciona na tensão entre o mesmo e o diferente, sob a determinação da processualidade histórica, refletida na materialidade discursiva.

Possíveis percursos no imaginário de estudantes de licenciatura em Física sobre funções e funcionamento da avaliação

Dada a complexidade e os múltiplos sentidos que podem ser atribuídos à palavra avaliação, pensada, entre outras possibilidades, enquanto verificação de conhecimento, de disciplina, de controle de valores e atitudes, neste estudo, buscamos compreendê-la a partir de estudos voltados para essa atividade e de noções da análise de discurso pecheutiana. Na parte empírica analisamos respostas, de três licenciandos em quatro anos consecutivos, para a questão: Qual o significado da "prova" (avaliação) para você? Nessa análise buscamos responder a seguinte questão: Como o imaginário, sobre função e funcionamento da prova/avaliação, de estudantes de um curso de formação inicial de professores de física, se modificou ao longo do curso? Os resultados apontam o papel da memória discursiva dos estudantes em seus imaginários.