Análise de discurso crítica de semanários brasileiros da década de 1980 e de 2010: reflexões sobre violência e conservadorismo

Abstract

Reflections on social gender and its representations imply a first and necessary conduct: the elimination of closed categories (BUTLER, 2013). We go towards discontinuity (of the subject in time and space). While institutions try to keep ideas (threateningly) conservative, groups and individuals move among the multiple, the "trans", the indomitable and uncontrollable spirit of a future that is often renewed. In the 2010s, Brazil, for example, undergoes a process of strengthening institutions' conservatism, which do not dialogue with individuals and groups' sociocultural achievements - an undeniable transformation that occurred during the millennium. In this context, it is possible to realize the recrudescence of homophobic and racist discourse in the parliament and in the media. In order to illustrate this setback in the instances of power, the present study aims to analyze two issues of “Semanario” magazine published in 1989, which deal with gender and sexuality in their covers, as well as an issue of “Tititi”, published in october 2013, taking as a basis the Critical Discourse Analysis (FAIRCLOUGH, 1999; CHOULIARACHI; FAIRCLOUGH, 2003), here considered as theory and method. Associated with the CDA, we use Multimodality (KRESS; VAN LEEUWEN, 1996). In our analysis, we relate the textual dimension of discourse, the composition of images on the covers and the associated texts. The corpus qualitative analysis allows us to defend the thesis that in the 1980s there was more freedom and daring in Brazilian media, while at the same time there was less violence and less hatred than there is today. This work was presented at ALED 2015, but not published.