A conceitualização de violência e futebol

Abstract

This paper presents metaphorical as well as metonymical language related to soccer which emerged in discursive interactions among participants when they talked about living with violence in urban areas of Brazil. We take a discourse dynamics approach to metaphor that holds that the metaphors people use in talk reflect their emotions and understandings. The analysis center on data gathered from the discourse produced by one focus group in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais and one focus group in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. Our research question is: Why do participants use soccer related figurative language when they talk about violence? We adopted metaphor-led discourse analysis (CAMERON et al., 2009), which enables us to reflect on the way how Brazilians face situations of urban violence and the figurative language they use in order to conceptualize violence.