As representações sociais no discurso dos super-heróis: o caso Batman, o Cavaleiro das Trevas

Abstract

The American superheroes bring, often in his speeches, an interpretation of reality system, organizing the relations of the subject with the world and guiding their social behavior. Based on this understanding, our research aims at discursive analysis of the stories in American superhero comics, intending to understand the way in which these characters undergo transformations over time, in their social and discursive representations. As a theoretical basis for this study, considering the social and discursive representations are closely related, they use the reflections of Moscovici (1978) about the social representations, combined with proposals Analysis of French orientation speech, particularly with regard to concepts of Discourse Training (Foucault, 1997; PÊCHEUX, 1995) and Constituent Speech (MAINGUENEAU, 2000). For this analysis, we elected as corpus the stories of two famous superheroes stories in American comics: Superman and Batman, from the series "Batman, The Dark Knight." We note that the superheroes have formed a new social representation in recent decades, to represent, throughout history, the evolution that departs from demigod image in favor of a sliding senses that is a subject fundamentally ambiguous in its cognitive and psychosocial character.