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This article analyzes, in the light of French Discourse Analysis, the discursive functioning of the term "mi-mi-mi". The study takes as a corpus two excerpts from the social network Twitter, in which it is possible to verify that the expression "mi-mi-mi" and the statements with which it establishes a relationship are used as a way of mocking, belittling, embarrassing and silencing minorities, evidencing knowledge that delineate the Extreme Right Discursive Formation, such as racism and misogyny. In general, it was observed that when expressing such meanings, the analyzed discourses express views that converge to the idea that there is a group that must prevail over the others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyse the way in which the media and the discourses that are formulated and circulate in it appear in the theoretical-analytical reflections proposed by Michel Pêcheux, in the theory of discourse analysis. Specifically, it considered two points: a) the way in which media discourses are mobilized in texts by Pêcheux and other researchers related to him, in their productions on the French scene, between the late 1960s and early 1980s; b) the way in which these reflections that permeate the Pecheutian work found resonance from the reterritorialization of discourse analysis in Brazil, resulting in analysis of diverse corpora and theorizations about the journalistic, advertising and digital discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the long-standing history of silencing and belittling women's voices and public speech through discriminatory discourses. Using assumptions and methodological procedures of the French Discourse Analysis, we examine utterances from ancient Greece and Rome, from modern Europe and contemporary Brazil, coming from different fields of knowledge and formulated in different discursive genres, which materialize a set of ideas, beliefs, and representations about the supposed female incapacities for public performance in public space. Regarding contemporary times, we analyze utterances that focus on female voice and public speech in the political scenario, more precisely, utterances that concern former president Dilma Rousseff and federal deputy Tabata Amaral. We demonstrate that, despite the profound historical changes in the conditions of discourse production, the discrimination of female speech has become so consistent that it continues to perpetuate itself today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a discursive analysis of Época and Istoé magazine covers published in November 2015, an effervescent period of women's protests in major Brazilian cities' streets. We propose understanding how these media discourses constitute the Women's Spring event in the correlation between images and captions, producing significance about what is seen and what is read. We establish the theoretical foundation on the interlocution between the concept of myth developed by Roland Barthes' Semiology and postulates of French Discourse Analysis about the image as a social memory operator because the media discourses challenge forms, signification, and history. The analysis demonstrates that the magazine covers present connotation procedures that move significants, atributting then historical meanings. Thus, the magazine covers recite myths such as the "youth who dreams about revolution" and activate, by analogy and association to previous images, memory trajectories that date back to the event of Arab Spring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the partial result of a bigger project that seeks to understand the reception and particularities assumed by Bakhtinian thought in Brazil since its introduction in the 1970s to the present day. For doing so, it analyzes the texts that frame the Brazilian translations and (re)translations of the Bakhtinian work, examining which dialogical (evaluative) relationships can be observed in these frametexts: with whom they dialogue and to whom they are addressed at the time of their publication. This paper analyzes the Brazilian reception of the essays on Aesthetics of Verbal Creation, in the 1992 and 1997 editions, in the 2003 (re)translation, and also in subsequent publications, 2016 and 2017. The frame-texts of each of these editions show how reception, initially inserted in the tradition and continuity of a European and international academic scientific moment, has established itself institutionally over four decades, revealing new ways of reading and circulating the dialogical perspective of discourse in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes sayings about successful voices within the contemporary Brazilian media. More precisely, using the theoretical and methodological framework of Discourse Analysis, we describe and interpret the process of producing meanings in sayings constituted and formulated by the media discourse that clearly deals with the voice of persons whose success results in principle from their vocal performance. In view of this situation, we investigated in the constitution of the discourse of success what is said of the voice, how it is enunciated and the treatment given to the voice of those who appear in today's world of the media. To this, we have two texts from the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, one from 2011, other from 2012. The analysis of these points to the existence of a media discourse that is structured based on effects around successful voices built for its dissemination and consumption in the social space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work seeks to analyze the discursive strategies linked to the implementation of nationalization policies developed during 2008 in Argentina. Specifically, it focuses on identifying the procedures that tend to legitimize and generate adherence to those measures present in the speech produced by former president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (2007-2015). To this end, we start from concepts inscribed in the theories of discourse analysis --particularly, of political discourse and around the question of ethos--, in dialogue with the selected corpus. Within this framework, a set of deployed strategies stand out that aimed to promote the credibility and legitimacy of the broadcaster, with the subsequent aim of achieving acceptance and adherence to government action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We examine the discursive functioning of roundtable discussions about soccer within televised sports programs. The study begins with the hypothesis that the legitimacy of arguments in these debates depends, to a significant extent, on the staging of the enunciators' image (mediator and commentators) through the way they enunciate. There are programs in which commentators disavow 'clubism' in favor of journalistic 'neutrality,' as well as programs in which commentators present themselves to the public as 'representatives' of the teams. As this research is grounded in Discourse Analysis, our aim is not to prescribe the 'appropriate' directions for soccer debates, but rather to verify how specific meanings are validated in these discourses. Drawing on Charaudeau's theoretical framework related to language as staging and seeking support from Maingueneau's and Amossy's studies concerning the concept of ethos, we analyze the programs 'Jogo Aberto' (Rede Bandeirantes) and 'Linha de Passe' (ESPN Brasil). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the theoretical and methodological assumptions from Pêcheux's Discourse Analysis, this study aims to comprehend the sense effects that emerge from excessive discursive operations of negation in narratives mobilized by overweight subjects. From the analysis, the article proposes a possibility where that excess is related to a resistance process in the discourse of those subjects. The overweight subject, interpelled by the dominant Discursive Formation (DF), cannot establish an identification with the evidences that the DF produces: the body imposes itself as a barrier to the process of identification. However, the subject does not find a possibility of identification outside the dominant DF. The process of subjectivation of the overweight subject is crossed by a negation: the subject is what he/she is not. In other words, the overweigth subject needs to be subjectified by the opposite of the evidence. This process is linearized in his/her discourse through excessive negation uses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we carry out an analysis of discourses of reading promotion in texts that circulated in the Brazilian printed media at the beginning of the twentieth century, where there is the project and activities of the Brazilian League against Illiteracy, founded in 1915. The League actions and projects' enunciation indicates both discourses then in effect about Brazilian reading and readers and shared representations regarding the encouragement of this practice. Our goal is to describe some of those representations and their fomentation that guide the League creators' actions. For this purpose, we are supported by some principles of the Discourse Analysis and the Cultural History of Reading. Besides the consensus that still exists on Brazilians permanent reading deficit, we noticed a re-emergence of the proselytizing discourse in the reading promotion, assumed by that institution as a "holy crusade". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the theoretical and methodological perspective of the Materialistic Discourse Analysis (PÊCHEUX, [1969] 2019; [1975] 2009), this article aims to analyze how the space is signified through discursive practices concerning the Covid-19 pandemic: the State advertising and the infrared thermometer. This way, we comprehend that there are two models of space management: the drama setting, related to disciplinary power and biopolitics (FOUCAULT, [1975] 2010; [1978] 2008); and the war zone, related to the society of control (DELEUZE, 1992) and to the necropolitics (MBEMBE, 2018). In addition, it is possible to observe that space regulation, in the context of fighting the pandemic, has a differential in relation to the categories of class, sex, gender, and race. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the discourses produced by the famous yellow background poster with the image of a working woman and the title We can do it!. Created in the World War II and repeated by the feminisms in the 1980s and 2010s, the poster produces discourses that relate to different historical conjunctures. We propose an analysis of discourses about the women's strenght, materialized by the verbvisual utterances, in order to understand how historical conditions of possibility motivate the enunciation of women's capacity at different times. Affiliated to the Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, a field that investigates the discursive practices and the formation of objects and subjectivities, this work mobilizes the concepts of utterance, archive, and event. The analysis demonstrates that the image's conditions of return modify the formation rules of theses discourses. Therefore, historical discontinuities determine the repetitions of this utterance as unique and singular events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to reflect on the question of the subjectivity in self-help literature books, particularly in Treinando a emoção para ser feliz (2007a) - Training Your Emotion To Be Happy, in English - and 12 semanas para mudar uma vida (2007b) - Twelve Weeks to Change Your Life, in English -, two works of the Brazilian writer Augusto Cury. Based on the theoretical-methodological perspective of the Discourse Analysis (DA), especially the one developed by Michel Foucault, we mobilize some discussions about this matter. From a process of description and interpretation of the statements that compose the corpus, we identified, in the analyzed discourses, the mobilization of devices and practices in the subject's relations with himself. Those devices discursivize and work with the production of subjectivities in the contemporaneity, as well as they are in a field of the editorial production marked by given conditions of social and historical possibilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, the objective is to sustain the hypothesis where the discourse is sometimes guided by a narcissistic functioning. It would simulate cordiality and flexibility, though not always, when, ultimately, it only aspires, strives hard to maintain itself in a personal mirroring to avoid controversy and revision. The corpus consists of some memes taken from Facebook posts. For this study, as a theoretical basis, we use assumptions of the French Discourse Analysis, some discussions mobilized in the Linguistic Pragmatics and, especially, Freud's theorization on the narcissistic desire of the individual in transforming the world into a mirror for self-reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on news of the rape of a 9-year-old child at Bororó village, located in the city of Dourados, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, this paper discusses how the cultural diversity of indigenous peoples is textualized in MS Record, the local TV news program. Supported by the French Line of Discourse Analysis and the study of social practices, this research analyzes how the television media, when questioning some aspects of the indigenous cultural identity through its supposed uniqueness and legitimacy, strikes out at the human rights and diversity, mostly contesting "privileges" given to indigenous people. Among the power relations inherent to the journalistic discourse and the historicity of the analyzed event, there is a effacement of the crime itself in relation to the (lack of) indianity. Ultimately, there is a dissemination of a prejudiced and discriminatory discourse towards them, particularly about how the courts and Brazilian indigenous protection organizations understand their own native people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the inversion of the relation of possession in constructions of the type "Sou seu x" ('I am your x')", in which x is replaced by a social function of kinship or proximity through an interface between morphosyntax and discourse analysis. Data under investigation were collected from a specific methodology on a web search site aiming at observing the occurrence of six constructions in context of usage (i) "Sou seu marido" ('I am your husband'); (ii) "Sou sua mulher" ('I am your wife'); (iii) "Sou seu pai" ('I am your father'); (iv) "Sou sua mãe" ('I am your mother'); (v) "Sou seu amigo" ('I am your (male) friend'; (vi) 'Sou sua amiga' ('I am your (female) friend'). In this type of construction, the interpretation of possession, not rarely, the interpretation of possession functions inversely. In fact, the nominal term possessed, at the morphosyntactic level, becomes a possessor term at the discourse level, especially in authoritarian utterances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]