Antes e depois real: o corpo feminino e os padrões estéticos à luz da Gramática Sistêmico-Funcional

Abstract

The persuit of the perfect body and the beauty standards imposed by the media are recurrent guidelines in social networks, which directly and indirectly influences in the subjects’ education. In this sense, this paper aims at analyzing, under the bias of the Systemic-Functional Grammar (SFG), three posts that copy with the body transformation, in order to understand the education of these subjects through linguistic materiality. Therefore, It has been chosen the Instagram “Antes e depois real”, which shows in its posts the “before and after” photos, as well as a short description of how the weight loss process took place, in commented format, named, here, the Self-Narrative. Theoretically, this study is based on the concepts of SFG, more specifically to the ideational meta-function and the Transitivity System, proposed by Halliday (2004, 2014). The postulates of Fairclough (2008), Hall (2005), Cunha and Souza (2011) and Del Priore (2013) also guided the analysis of this article. Concerning the methodological aspects, it should be noted that the research is based on transdisciplinary study, as it combines Language Studies, Cultural Studies and Sociology. Furthermore, the approach is characterized as qualitative and quantitative, since it has been considered the importance of quantifying verbs in the process of data interpretation. The results of the analyzed narratives show the fragmentation of the subjects’ identities, resulting from socio-cultural changes, in terms of body patterns, as well as the power relations that digital medias have over contemporary subjects.