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In this paper, I analyse Brazilian foreign policy with special attention to change from Americanism to Globalism in the early 1960s. This article argues that such change happened amid a crisis of ontological security. Traditional diplomats were supporters of Americanism, whereas some intellectuals and politicians came up with Neutralism, an alternative foreign policy discourse. They upheld different narratives of Brazil's identity, whether as a Western country or a bridge between developing nations and the West. I will argue that diplomats did solve such critical situation and regain control over Brazilian foreign policy's formulation and implementation. They did so by deactivating parts of Neutralism and carving out Globalism, which would become the new hegemonic foreign policy discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When the work of the Constituent and Legislative General Assembly of the Empire of Brazil was begun in 1823, the state of Bahia was absent. It was to arrive at a delay, as in its capital and surrounding region the fight for independence was still underway. Such a situation sparked controversies and debates which highlighted the province's economic and political importance, whose absence, according to various deputies, rendered the implementation of certain agendas inviable. Between impasses and decisions, it is possible to understand Bahia's insertion in parliamentary debates and to problematize the intentions, interests, and plans of its representatives when they comment on issues such as amnesty, provincial government, and the creation of law courses in Brazil, based on the speeches registered in the annals of the Senate. The minutes of the Constituent General Assembly's sessions held in 1823 are the sources used here, interpreted and problematized from the perspective of the discourse analysis method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to: understand the meanings and the subjects produced, focusing on the linguistic, enunciative and textual resources used in the discursive constitution of the work “O sucesso de amanhã começa hoje” (MAXWELL, 2005), in search of discovering recurrences in the production of certain effects of meaning on their success and their relationship with their interlocutors. Saying about success refers to a possibility of historical rise whose viability is closely linked to the conditions of emergence of a discourse that capitalizes on the desire for change in the disposition of social contrasts. On the other hand, the foundation of the discourse of success (SOARES, 2016; 2017; 2018) is in line with the discrepant functioning of the very forms in which this type of discourse means and permeates multiple meanings in its structure. At the current stage of its dispersion, it can be said that its strong manifestation, guaranteed by coaching, transmutes it into a self-knowledge mechanism by insinuating itself as a discourse of change or even revolutionary that sustains its continuity and diffusion. Thus, with the investigation of the functioning of the discourse of success in “O sucesso de amanhã começa hoje” and its relationship with other studies about the circulating discourses, we hope to contribute to the elaboration of a better grounded knowledge about social relations in the contemporary world, in particular, in Brazil today. For that, we will use the renowned theoretical and analytical tool of Discourse Analysis derived from the texts of Michel Pêcheux and his collaborators, being the main members of the analysis device: conditions of production, discursive formation and interdiscourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: analyzing how entrepreneurship is portrayed by the mass media in Brazil, based on data on one of the main national communication media, namely: Folha de São Paulo newspaper. Design/methodology/approach: 1,288 news reports, published between January 2019 and December 2021, were analyzed based on using Structural Topic Modeling (STM) algorithm support and R programming language. Publications' volume and the main entrepreneurship topics were herein described. In addition, content published in the year before the Covid-19 pandemic and those published during the aforementioned health crisis were comparatively analyzed, based on trends reported by previous research. Results: there was increase in the number of publications during the pandemic period. Entrepreneurship's positive image was maintained by the media, which disregarded narratives about entrepreneurs' trajectories and failure times. Topics associated with minorities' inclusion proved to be a novelty, with emphasis on social entrepreneurship. Originality/value: the current research has evidenced entrepreneurship representation specificities, such as those associated with the pandemic period, although this scientific topic remains poorly explored at national level. STM highlights the news reports adopting discourse analysis among most studies on this subject. Furthermore, previous studies have mainly focused on news reports published in business magazines. In terms of social contribution, the current findings trigger a critical reflection on how mass media portray entrepreneurship in Brazil, and it enables addressing the need of developing more realistic and less romanticized narratives about this phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazilian mental health focuses on the social determination model within mental health policies and interventions to address mental and social suffering as resulting from social exclusion and structural violence. Structural concerns focused on class stratification and socioeconomic inequalities overweight cultural ones in Brazilian mental health. In this article we examine, first the role of culture and interculturality in mental health practices and mental health guidelines for health professionals continuing training in Brazil. Second, we explore interviews with health professionals around Continuing Education in Health provided by mental health collaborative care initiatives within primary health care as illustration of a local practice of structural competency in mental health. Finally, we examine the central role played by the practices of territorialisation in shaping health care training and care interventions. The focus on the territory can promote critical apprehensions of the intercultural and structural factors that shape health practices, enrich health professional education oriented towards the basic tenets of social medicine and provide global discussions around structural competency with innovative ways of thinking about health education, health care and spatiality. We believe that our results may be useful for comparing structural competency training initiatives in global health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to analyze Google for Education not just as a platform, but as a means of fostering cultural pedagogies in the realm of education. We are interested in understanding how this kind of digital agent places itself in the Distance Education (DE) context, more specifically, the way it represents itself and its products in the face of the expectations generated by the current moment of education in Brazil. The way it has come to be perceived, from the growth of the so-called Big Techs, giant technology conglomerates with global influence and range, is related to the expansion of neoliberal rationality and informational capitalism that underlie the discourses and representations about DE. In this sense, we propose to analyze Google for Education advertisements, how they teach distance education, in a market logic, linking through images and discourses their products to the idea of quality and guarantee of excellence in education. For this, we will use the methodology of Fairclough (2001), called Text-Oriented Discourse Analysis, in what it allows us to understand in terms of the connection between linguistic resources used in real texts, and the symbolic mechanisms of power. Finally, we seek to demonstrate the impact caused by the advance of neoliberal rationale on educational systems in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to analyze nurses' discourse about the potentialities in using information technologies as organizational support for the COVID-19 coping actions in Primary Health Care. Method: a qualitative and exploratory study conducted in the Family Health Strategy units from the city of João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. Data collection was carried out from September to November 2021 with 26 nurses selected through the snowball technique, resorting to a semi-structured interview script. The empirical material was organized in the Atlas.ti 9 software and grounded on the theoretical- methodological contribution of Discourse Analysis, French Line. Results: three discursive blocks were evidenced: innovation based on social media; health education actions; resoluteness in organizational actions, presenting the relevance of the WhatsApp®, Instagram® and Facebook® apps as strategic resources, in order to collaborate in the Primary Health Care are with the organization of health actions against COVID-19 by nurses. Conclusion: health units have the potential to strengthen the assistance provided through digital organizational devices; however, they need political support that invests in the structure and strategies to enhance organization of the health actions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to know the discourses attributed by students entering the Bachelor's course in Nursing to the epistemic units health and disease. Method: exploratory-descriptive, qualitative approach. The research was conducted with 29 beginners of the Bachelor's degree in Nursing at a public university located in the city of Boa Vista, Roraima state. The strategy for data production was the Dramatic Play using the image inducer. The raw data were recorded by scribes during class and analyzed according to the speech. Results: known discourses involved health, social determinants of health, diseases, nursing performance in health-disease processes and expanded discourses on the Unified Health System. Final considerations: through the dramatic play, the nursing freshmen highlighted discourses on health promotion, disease prevention, social elements in health interface, nursing know-how and expanded reflections on health system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Development and implementation of effective protected area management to reduce deforestation depend in part on identifying factors contributing to forest loss and areas at risk of conversion, but standard land‐use‐change modeling may not fully capture contextual factors that are not easily quantified. To better understand deforestation and agricultural expansion in Amazonian protected areas, we combined quantitative land‐use‐change modeling with qualitative discourse analysis in a case study of Brazil's Jamanxim National Forest. We modeled land‐use change from 2008 to 2018 and projected deforestation through 2028. We used variables identified in a review of studies that modeled land‐use change in the Amazon (e.g., variables related to agricultural suitability and economic accessibility) and from a critical discourse analysis that examined documents produced by different actors (e.g., government agencies and conservation nonprofit organizations) at various spatial scales. As measured by analysis of variance, McFadden's adjusted pseudo R2, and quantity and allocation disagreement, we found that including variables in the model identified as important to deforestation dynamics through the qualitative discourse analysis (e.g., the proportion of unallocated public land, distance to proposed infrastructure developments, and density of recent fires) alongside more traditional variables (e.g., elevation, distance to roads, and protection status) improved the predictive ability of these models. Models that included discourse analysis variables and traditional variables explained up to 19.3% more of the observed variation in deforestation probability than a model that included only traditional variables and 4.1% more variation than a model with only discourse analysis variables. Our approach of integrating qualitative and quantitative methods in land‐use‐change modeling provides a framework for future interdisciplinary work in land‐use change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work aims to understand the path of environmental education (Sauvé, 2005) that is mobilized in the environmental education policies of Brazil and Colombia, as well as the disputes that took place for its elaboration. We analyze institutional documents, for Brazil Law 9,975 of 1999, decree 4281 of 2002 and the National Program of EA (ProNEA 2003, 2005, 2014); and for Colombia the general guidelines for an environmental education policy (1995), and law 1549 of 2012 that consolidates the environmental education policy (2002). Present a history of the construction of these programs, and an analysis of the concept of Environmental Education present in their discourse. We highlight the predominance of critical perspective in Brazil and a Systemic one in the case of Colombia, in addition to the presence of other currents of the area as a political strategy and negotiation with other political and ideological sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Asking about a possible aesthetic formation for teaching in visual arts may seem obvious, however, based on a survey of texts carried out in the archives of four important events for the areas of Art and Education in Brazil, they are: "Reunião Anual da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Educação -- ANPEd"; "Encontro Nacional da Associação Nacional de Pesquisadores em Artes Plásticas -- ANPAP"; "Encontro Nacional de Didática e Prática de Ensino -- ENDIPE"; "Congresso da Federação de Arte Educadores do Brasil -- CONFAEB", it was possible to identify that the relationships between the themes of aesthetics, teaching and visual arts are distinct and point to different issues within the field of teacher education. The texts were analyzed under the inspiration of Michel Foucault's discourse analysis, texts that were published between the years 2008 and 2015. In them, it was possible to identify a system of regularities and dispersions that made visible the existence of four trends in the ways in which they are placed in relation to the themes of art, teaching and aesthetic formation. At the end of the text, I propose some questions to problematize what we have done in relation to the training of teachers in arts with the intention of launching clues on the issue that mobilized the study the aesthetic dimension of the study of teachers of visual arts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The history of Brazilian nurses is marked by several challenges, in part resulting from discontinuous and fragile activity boundaries among the health professions that share the same work objective in care services. A field of constant disputes, the Brazilian health system, was the target of a lawsuit filed by the Federal Council of Medicine that temporarily suspended nurses' activities in primary care. This study aimed to demonstrate the manipulative discourse present in the text of the injunction request by medical doctors against legislation by the Brazilian Federal Government in 2017. This is a qualitative and documental study that used the theoretical–methodological framework of critical discourse studies based on Teun Van Dijk's analytical categories. The results pointed to manipulative discourse through a polarization between manipulators' good qualities and intentions and the bad qualities of nurses and Brazilian primary care policies; episodic manipulation by the presentation of documental and historical evidence of the submission of nursing roles; and social manipulation marked by strong emotional appeal. The study demonstrated that manipulative discourse extrapolated linguistic categories in the form of ideology and history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dilma Rousseff's second term as president of Brazil, slated to run from 2015 to 2019, was curtailed by her impeachment amid a systemic crisis in which the São Paulo business elite, represented by the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP), the major Brazilian business association, played an active political role. In order to understand FIESP's behavior, its official notes and releases were assessed by political discourse analysis with regard to actors and institutions, both mobilized and articulated, as well as elements of interest and opinions. Our findings indicate FIESP's leading role in the pro-impeachment movement, the strengthening of institutionalized state-corporate channels, the strategic use of different discourses to co-opt political capital, the demonization of the progressive Workers' Party (PT), and the promotion of distrust in all that is political. Our analysis also revealed social manipulation by business elites through their control of the mass media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considering the context of political dispute and the confrontation with LGBT subjects in education, this research aims to per form an analysis of the anti-gender crusade in the educational field. As of a post-structuralist theorization, anchored mainly in Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, it is argued that a neo-conservative motion based in an anti-feminist discourse was developed in Brazil to fight gender and sexuality topics in school curriculum. In conclusion, to carry out an analysis of neo-conservative discourses is essential for gender studies, since these narratives, based in moral panic strategies, has created support for educational laws as homeschoooling and militarized schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The journal Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro, the first one produced in Brazil regularly, was one of the historiographical objects most mistreated by the historiography of communication on 20th century. Read by eyes of the political contest, it was reduced to an irrelevant spreader of the life and values of the Portuguese monarchy, deserving low concern for being irrelevant. These points of view approached the object from the outside, analyzing it by external factors such as its binding to the king. Monarchical journal, it was read by the eyes of the Republic. Rescued by actual historiography, it has been reread for its role in itself, not for the role that the present hoped, chronocentricly, for it to play. With an approach focused on discursive materiality and unraveling its real conditions of existence and communicational operation, this article looks inside of it, without judging, trying to understand Gazeta and its undeniable relevance on its time, either for its durability or for the type of press that it created in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to investigate the limits of coping with the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil, in its first 180 days. The methodology used is bibliographic survey, to find gaps in the field of social sciences, and a discourse analysis, in a Marxist sense. The results indicate two types of problems: an organic, which is related to the condition of a country of dependent capitalism, which has a form of autocratic domination, which negatively influences public health; the other is the Bolsonaro's government and its inertia in dealing with the health crisis. Also, the pandemic develops unevenly, reaching mostly the poorest and blacks / browns, showing the class character of the pandemic in Brazil. Finally, we criticize the limits of the approaches that defend the return of the Keynesian State as a solution to the crisis of neoliberalism that the coronavirus opens up. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Violent extremism is commonly conditioned by a variety of psychological processes and mechanisms that when activated or deactivated aid implication in extreme behavior, including destructive actions with a large dose of cruelty against people and groups. One of those processes is moral disengagement, which was originally postulated by Bandura. To test this relationship, the present research focused on studying these mechanisms in members of Colombian illegal armed groups. Total sample size was 18 (14 males and four females) demobilized members of the Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia [AUC]) and guerrilla organizations (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia [FARC], National Liberation Army [ELN], among others), which had participated directly or indirectly in violent actions against people and groups, which included murders, tortures, and massacres. Qualitative methodology was used, specifically in-depth interviews and content analysis. This analysis led to the verification in the narratives of the participants of the use of all the mechanisms of moral disengagement described by Bandura aiming to justify their behavior within the armed group. The most noteworthy mechanisms were those that minimized participation (especially, attributing behavior to obeying orders: displacement of responsibility) and moral justification, especially, the context of confrontation. Moral disengagement processes are found in armed group members (such as insurgency, terrorist organizations, or militias). These mechanisms cancel ordinary psychological reactions of rejection, fear, and moral controls that oppose the carrying out of cruelty and extreme violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes aims to perform an analysis of the discourses of twelve Brazilian bills law projects that aim have as proposal the to prohibition of the use of gender-neutral language. To do so, we depart start from a discussion on Foucauldian governmentality to and elaborate a description of the topology of government in Brazil today according to the order of late neoliberalism and Christian-Neopentecostal morality -- considering its effects for the LGBTQIA+ population. We then move on to discuss the invention of gender-neutral language and the agonistics it makes work to, finally, analyze three strategies of the bills: that of the hardening recrudescence of the language-nation people pair, that of the production of public enemies, and that of the invention of a childhood to be protected. We close the text with observations about the production of abnormality and monstrosity today, aimed at increasingly problematic framings for dissent from heterocisnormativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: highlight health inequalities of homeless adolescents based on the conceptual framework of social determinants of health. Method: this is a convergent parallel mixed-methods study. The population consisted of adolescents who are homeless, with purposeful sampling and data saturation. Quantitative data were obtained with a questionnaire and qualitative data through semi-structured interviews. Results: 19 homeless adolescents participated in the study, 13 (68.4%) aged 16 to 19 years; 11 (57.9%) were male, 3 (15.8%) were female, and 5 (26.3%) were transgender adolescents. Participants experienced different levels of exposure and vulnerabilities to conditions that affect health and were directly related to intermediate determinants of health. Conclusion: this study provides an understanding of the inequalities related to the health of homeless adolescents and shows evidence that supports strategies to promote equity and dignity in health care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Grounded on the dialogical perspective of language and the critical approach to the study of language teacher emotions, this paper aims to discuss the emotions of an English teacher in her remote teaching experience in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We present a case study based on the discourse analysis of the teacher's experience report during her participation in a roundtable discussion about English teaching in pandemic times. The online event took place in the first semester of 2020, during the University Week of a college located in the countryside of Ceará State, Brazil. Considering the concrete context and the broader contexts of discursive production, our analysis of the teacher's utterance indicates the predominance of emotional distress in power relations, especially, with academic, pedagogical, and legislative discourses. Notwithstanding, she reveals self-confidence in face of the demand for frequently using the computer and WhatsApp in remote language teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to analyze the nurses’ discourses about the actions and strategies of care for the elderly with tuberculosis in primary health care services. Method: exploratory study, with qualitative approach, developed in the municipality of João Pessoa, Paraíba. Nurses working in Primary Health Care and who assisted elderly people diagnosed with tuberculosis in the municipality were included in the study. The empirical data were analyzed using the theoretical analytical device of the Discourse Analysis of the French matrix. Results: it was evidenced that the effective implementation of active search, incentives, home visits, comprehensive care for the elderly, health education and exams favor the control of the disease, in addition to the therapeutic adherence of the elderly. Final considerations: the nurses’ discourses elucidated that professionals should rethink how they are producing care for the elderly, especially those with tuberculosis, because this population lacks specific attention, with their own singularities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to understand the perspective of health professionals on the concepts of Clinical Economics and Patient Advocate. Method: a qualitative study with health professionals. Data were collected in June/2017 from the question: What is your perception of the concept of Clinical Economics and Patient Advocate? Qualitative data were analyzed using the Collective Subject Discourse. Results: the speeches pointed out that it deals with innovative, challenging and applicable proposals for nursing and health care. Patient Advocate and the Clinical Economics concept can support the decisions of the health team/service managers. The ideas can enhance the integration of the teams, resolve conflicts, bring together different professional categories and mitigate the risks of legal, financial and ethical responsibilities regarding health care. Conclusion: the concepts was understood as fundamental and applicable, since the organization survive with adequate human, financial and material management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since Jair Messias Bolsonaro took charge as the President of the Republic of Brazil, in 2018, we have been witnessed mutual attacks between some media institutions and the President. Both protagonists confront each other on networks interactions often exaggerated. Therefore, they end up forging the image of one another, through pathemic argumentative resources to persuade citizens with their truths and ideological positions. On one hand, part of the media reports Bolsonaro's impudence and inanity. On the other hand, the president defends himself by accusing the media of being biased and perfidious. This dissension ends up by involving Bolsonaro, the media and the public, inquiring them in their beliefs or passions and, by reflection, forges their own collective identity. Considering the context of this incongruous and polarized scenario, we propose to analyze discursively, with the theoretical assistance of the Discourse Analysis, the Rhetoric and Argumentation the permanent reconstruction of the identities of the enunciative instances and the strategic use of emotions as a rhetorical-argumentative structure to affect their respective public. In view of the vast material available, we selected as a corpus for analysis, four online news and seven presidential social media posts published in the last couple years (2019-2020). As a result, we will have showed that both protagonists use their rhetoric and argumentative tools to, in their own way, forge their ethos, justify their political and ideological positions, to confront the other part involved and persuade the public into their causes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to INCRA data (2019), in Brazil there are 9,443 thousand settlements, and for many of them there is no forecast of land regularization. It is included that many of these rural settlements were implemented as a land tenure regularization policy, as well as a way of resettling those affected by big national development works. In this context, the Special Colonization Project of Serra do Ramalho (PEC-SR) is inserted, which was born as a settlement project resulting from a development policy in the 1970s. In this sense, the objective of the research was to analyze the confrontation of the peasants in the struggle in / for the land in order to better understand them as social subjects of resistance in the land of work and life, most of them "forgotten" by the hegemonic discourse of capital. It became evident that, with the expansion of capitalism in the countryside, peasants are increasingly subordinated to the subjection of land value and, in short, face a constant struggle against all means of expropriation. Resistance is a constant struggle by peasants to ensure that access to possession and permanence on land are constituted as rights of a sufficient land and agricultural policy to allow concrete actions, in order to historically break with the practices produced and reproduced in the countryside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Because cities have a curriculum, the purpose of this article is to show the constitution, as an educational territory, of a path taken by children organized in a comprehensive education experience characterized by activities outside the school space: the Programa Escola Integrada (Belo Horizonte/MG). Based on the postcritical perspective of curriculum studies, the article shows that, in the experience of the curriculum of the city, although children are enrolled in a world whose way of being adult is standardized through the device of infanthood (which produces child subjects since the beginning of Modernity), children learn in/with the city, which enables educational territories creation. Using elements from educational ethnography and Foucauldian discourse analysis, we present aspects to reflect on the pedagogical practices, especially those related to the constitution of subjectivities, of full-time education programs in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study presents elements about the conditions of reading, reception, and exegesis of Bakhtinian work in Brazil. For this purpose, it raises some biographical aspects of Bakhtin, Volochinov, and Medvedev, as well as a brief historical overview in respect of the reception of their texts in France, especially in the late '60s with Julia Kristeva. In addition, it analyzes four paratexts of works by some authors from the Bakhtin Circle with which we discussed the conditions of reading by investigating translation and reception matters. At the end, based on Beth Brait's contributions, there is a reading of Bakhtinian work with a focus on the Dialogical Discourse Analysis (DDA). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

the article analyzes the socio-historical affiliations of the discourse of optimization of the physical and human resources of the federal universities proposed by Program to Support Restructuring and Expansion Plans of Federal Universities (Reuni). Thus, the investigation seeks to identify the conditions of production that support this optimization discourse, given that the idea that there are underused, poorly used or wasted resources in institutions that have long publicly denounced government scrapping and clamoring for help. To this end, in the light of Discourse Analysis affiliated with Michel Pêcheux, in conjunction with historical-dialectical materialism, we analyze the conditions of production that support this discourse. Throughout the text, it is demonstrated that, in addition to being in line with Capital's demands for precarious increase in the level of education in Brazil, the Reuni discourse also updates a discursive memory of the 1968 university reform. Thus, it ís concludes by stating that the Reuni is characterized as the old man dressed again, insofar as its optimization discourse is a discursive update of the idea of rationalizing material and human resources proposed by the university reform of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To understand the social representations of the use of concept maps in a tutorial group of nursing students. Methods: Qualitative research, based on the Collective Subject Discourse analysis of 26 students from a public university in the Midwest of Brazil. Results: Two categories emerged from the discourse analysis: 1) Concept Map: a facilitating tool for learning organization and 2) Concept Map: a tool that causes tension and disadvantages learning. Conclusion: The concept map facilitates self-study and learning, as it enables the synthesis of knowledge and the organization of reasoning. Regarding their collective use, there were flaws in the time spent in elaboration and in the need to find linking words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With this article, we present a first journey in a collective research program on the institutionalization of the History of Linguistic Ideas in Brazil, in its different axes of production and circulation. Here we bring three initial analytical gestures that will illustrate the complexity and vigor of this field of knowledge, namely: the construction of a network of researchers in continuous training; historicity and the transmission process - in which we scrutinized its initial registration as a project and its course in a representative congress in the field of Brazilian sciences, ANPOLL, and in which we observed the current framework of current productivity grants -; and, finally, what refers to institutional and academicscientific representativeness in a national context - in which we present an initial mapping of the disciplines of History of Linguistic Ideas in the graduate and postgraduate courses of Brazilian State and Federal Universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, we aim to present questions that, formulated since the articulation of the Materialist Discourse Analysis with the History of Linguistic Ideas in Brazil, seek to understand the meanings of language, law and subject of linguistic rights and duties in the enunciation space Brazilian. In addition to giving rise to studies that contribute to the analysis of law as an instrument of language policy in this space, we analyzed a recent text of Brazilian jurisprudence that decided on the requirement to communicate in Portuguese for naturalization in Brazil, a linguistic duty imposed by country's migratory law. The presentation of our theoretical and methodological basis as well as the analysis gesture bring contributions to a materialist reading of the practices of language regulation in Brazil, focusing on the processes of building an idea of Brazilian language, citizenship and nationality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study, anchored in the theoretical-analytical principles of the Materialist Discourse Analysis, aims to presente a historical overview of the language policies related to Spanish language teaching in Brazil, conducting a discussion on the discursive functioning of recent legislation regarding this educational practice. We observe the socio-historicalideological effects in the production of these policies, paying particular attention to the recent period of the Brazilian history, from the publication of the Spanish Language Law, in 2005, to the FicaEspanhol (StaySpanish) movement, mobilized from the repeal of the Spanish Language Law by the High School Reform, in 2017. With this text, we point to the effects of the neoliberal discourse in the elaboration of Brazilian language policies, materialized through the erasure of the Spanish language in the main documents that legislate on language teaching in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Mismatch between the perception of one's moral duty and one's real social contribution may trigger moral distress, especially when no specific resistance strategies are used to counteract morally distressing situations. Considering a philosophical-ethical conception, individuals need to first reflect upon themselves to later turn to the world and confront their current situation in order to change it. Objectives: To understand moral distress experienced by nursing professors teaching in higher education institutions and the use of parrhesia as a coping strategy. Method: This qualitative exploratory-descriptive study addressed 33 nursing professors working in Brazilian federal public universities using an open-ended question form. Data were collected between June and December 2018 and analyzed using discursive textual analysis. Ethical considerations: The Institutional Review Board at the Federal University of Rio Grande approved this study. Findings: Three categories emerged: performance of nursing professors and potentially distressing situations, the experience of moral distress, and parrhesia as a strategy to deal with moral distress. Nursing professors face situations that cause moral distress in the context of higher education, however, those who adopt parrhesia as a coping strategy find it easier to express their beliefs from the perspective of moral duty, even in the face of conflicts. Conclusion: When the nursing professors in this study acknowledge elements in the power structure that hinder their actions, they express parrhesia, as an essential virtue in an attempt to modify unsymmetrical power relations that can trigger moral distress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Broadcasting refers, in general terms, to the production and transmission of journalistic, educational and entertainment content in mass media. In this scenario, the work in Maintenance and Support (M&S), for the systems that support and compose the entire structure in broadcast, is one of the most complex, which raised the objective of analyzing the activity of these maintenance workers, responsible for the production support and broadcast transmission in Brazil. Based on an ergological and Bakhtinian perspective, the methodological format of semi-structured interviews allowed the recording and analysis of the speeches of the workers themselves, using a virtual room. The survey results showed a work activity riddled with labor disputes between teams and permanent pressure for full availability and immediate results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The hegemonic economic model based on commodity extraction has subjected the people of the countryside and forests to processes of expropriation and violence in Brazil. The appropriation of common goods, the concentration of land, and agrochemical dependence, make unveiling the ideological-conceptual construction of agribusiness centered on economic indicators that are anchored in the maintenance of subsidies provided by a bourgeois state - which facilitates the commodity corporations' subsumption of land rent and life - essential. We analyzed the political-discursive strategies undertaken by agribusiness, identifying the hegemonic characteristics and unity of discourse as a conceptual site to persuade society. Finally, we assess the Bolsonaro administration's ongoing strategies to enable the appropriation of protected territories in provisioning expanded capital accumulation via agribusiness and mining. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inclusion of mental health care into primary care has occurred in several countries, including Brazil, to tackle the lack of assistance. The integration of services is seen as necessary, but at the same time a major challenge. The aim of this study was to conduct an exploratory analysis of discursive practices on the use of psychotropic drugs and non-pharmacological approaches to overcome negative life events. Interviews conducted with physicians working in family health on the clinical practice of primary mental health care made up our research corpus. Data were analyzed based on the assumptions of discourse analysis. The analytical descriptions were built based on the statements identified in the discursive formation of the medicalization of life. The results of the analysis showed the therapeutic pluralism of psychotropics and their effects, less frequently using non-pharmacological approaches. Prescription excludes broader social plots, captures the power of life by modulating individual and collective behavior, so that social life is assured and legitimized, thus ensuring the alleged common good. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Describe the use of Yoga in breastfeeding support, from the perspective of nursing mothers. Methods: This is an exploratory, descriptive study with a qualitative approach, with ten lactating women, from the municipality of Niterói - RJ, in the period between May and September 2018, using the structured interview, workshop as data production tool Yoga and field diary. The data were submitted to discourse analysis in the thematic modality. Results: Three categories were identified: Yoga as emotional and physical support for mothers; The assistance of the health team, and the meanings of the experience during the parturition and breastfeeding process; and The mother-baby relationship as a basis for maternal well-being and continuity of breastfeeding. Conclusion: The convergence between Yoga and breastfeeding is identified, since the physiological and psychic processes are manifested in the health of the physical body, holistically interconnected. The senses and negative emotions, reported in the breastfeeding process were minimized with the use of yoga as a therapeutic resource. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Infant feeding practices are determined not only by biological and developmental needs, by also by psycho-affective, socioeconomic, and cultural factors, which have received limited research in Brazil. Objective: Understand the sociocultural and parental aspects that influence infant feeding practices. Method: This is a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with mothers in two cities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in November and December 2017. The choice of this technique aimed to elucidate the mothers' own reflections on their infant feeding practices. Interviews were conducted until reaching the necessary saturation point for identification of recurrent meanings. Thematic content analysis was performed with the empirical material, using the QRS Nvivo software. Interpretation of the empirical material was based on the theoretical-methodological references of common sense, food culture, meanings, and autonomy. Results: The following categories were identified: food culture, influence of social relations, attributes of ultra-processed foods, and parental aspects. In the current study, the sociocultural aspects that emerged from the mothers' discourse included classification of foods, influence of social actors, and attributes of ultra-processed foods. The parental practices featured parenting behaviors in specific contexts and those inherent to the child. Conclusions: Such aspects influenced food choices and should be acknowledged and understood by healthcare workers in order to empower their role in the promotion of healthy feeding and family counseling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents some of the theoretical-epistemological assumptions and methods which underpin Narrative Analysis in Brazil. In the niche we have carved out for ourselves, we combine (auto)ethnographic techniques with analytical tools which draw on both narrative analysis and sociolinguistics, as well as discourse analysis more widely speaking. In this paper, we especially seek to address what we consider the symbiotic relationship between the aforementioned field of study and contemporary transdisciplinary social research. This is done by showcasing examples of narrative research carried out in Brazil, particularly those motivated by sociopolitical concerns. Moreover, we aim to contribute to the debate ignited in post-truth times by the performative view we take of language, and so to speak narrative, by contemplating the practical repercussions of innovations stemming from the current state of affairs within the context of our own investigations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aims to discuss a historical record of Brazil, based on a complimentary and even euphoric look, about it in the British newspaper The Economist during the second term of former President Lula. The vehicle is regarded by economists and financial market experts from around the world as the bible of world liberalism; with this "brand" The Economist goes from panic with the imminent victory of the former union leader in 2002 to enthusiasm for the former Head of State of Latin America's greatest economic power house in less than a decade! This paper, with theoretical foundation surrounded by discourse analysis and important folkcommunicational aspects, makes a return to a recent historical past, however, extremely distant from the current Brazilian reality, in which the crisis permeates various sectors and the folk language, light, peaceful gave way to the discourse of "denialism" in the face of social demands of emergency order, as is the case of hunger, employment, public health. Finally, what was "marolinha" in the economy of the Lula Government, turning into praise and example for the whole planet, today seems a distant historical record. It is the aforementioned record that now presents itself, involving the speech as the central axis of the folk image of a former Brazilian president who brought praise and euphoria to his country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to analyze how the social, historical, economic and professional elements influence the institutionalization process of cesarean childbirth in Brazil and France. Method: a qualitative study grounded on the theoretical framework of the institutional socioclinic. The data were produced through focus groups and individual interviews, supported by semi-structured scripts, with health professionals, mothers and fathers and a research diary. The study had 83 participants. The analysis was based on the theoretical framework and thematic analysis. Cross analysis was developed between the different types of data, services and groups, as well as between countries. Results: the participants were characterized in terms of schooling, employment, level of training and workplace. The countries researched have their own peculiar health and educational structure and are marked by a social-historical-economic construction outlined by patriarchy. The New Public Management influences both contexts and makes health care precarious. The technical and organizational dimensions reinforce an intellectual and social division of work and knowledge in health. Conclusion: the institutionalization process of childbirth in the countries is marked by social, economic and professional aspects. Practices and speeches of the professionals in their work process influence the occurrence, or not, of cesarean sections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on multiple sources, this article presents an analysis of a national survey implemented by Street Clinic teams in Brazil on the homeless population and the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the lens of certain ethical-political principles and methodological decisions, we focus our analysis on discourses about who lives and works on the streets during the pandemic, connecting discourse with experience. From the perspective of governmentality and biopolitics, we seek to shed light on power relations that reveal modes of government embodied at the street level – mainly related to isolation measures and social distancing – to create tensions surrounding the emergence of the notion of the homeless population in the midst of the pandemic. We conclude with a discussion of the precariousness that circumscribes life on the streets as a shared condition, and search for ways to comprehend forms of resistance and the right to exist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to analyze the barriers to access HIV rapid test from the perspective of the discourse of managers of Primary Health Care services. Method: exploratory, qualitative research conducted in a health district of João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. Data collection was performed in September 2017 with 13 health managers. The empirical material was based on the theoretical-methodological contribution of the Discourse Analysis of the French matrix. Results: the discursive block "Barriers of user access in the health system to perform the HIV rapid test in Primary Health Care" was identified. The discourses revealed barriers of access tied to the dimensions: geographical accessibility, availability, feasibility and acceptability. Final considerations: the units have the potential to strengthen the performance of the HIV rapid test, however, they need political support aimed at strategies to strengthen the performance of the rapid test with scope to reduce access barriers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay has as its theme the water roads on the MAP border in Peru, Brazil, and Bolivia, inserted in the great Pan-Amazon, while crucial elements to deconstruct representations of an Amazon seen as ‘green hell’, ‘isolated’. To this end, we used to move across the borders of Geography, History, Literature, Cultural Studies, and Discourse Analysis to make the role of rivers visible in the process of deconstructing discourses cemented in literary canons, cartoons, and in the social and cultural imagery that one has of the region, from them as a place of transit, of social relations, and with nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intensification of management ideals has contributed to other aspects of daily life, beyond the educational and organizational scope, are built according to the model defined by management. From this perspective, executives stand out in the social imaginary as examples of successful managers and icons of (re) production of lifestyles. In this sense, the objective of this article is to analyze the process of deconstruction of the image of Eike Batista as successful executive from the analysis of the memes about the manifestations of Internet users in the face of the fugitive and the imprisonment situation of the entrepreneur in 2017. Through the French Discourse Analysis of 142 different memes, it is possible to affirm that for many demonstrators the image of Eike Batista as entrepreneur, successful Brazilian executive and/or success case for the Administration is being deconstructed and re-signified as a criminal or anti-hero. However, Brazil's mainstream media still build, associate and convey the image of Eike Batista as a manager, reinforcing the popularization and legitimation of the management culture in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work presents an example of the Archaeological Derivation Tree tool as a way to visually systematize the path taken by the researcher who walks through the Archaeological Discourse Analysis (Foucault, 2005). This methodological strategy also contributes to the visualization of the bundles of relationships between the analyzed speeches, strengthening the possibility of using this methodology for studies in the field of communication and journalism. The exemplification is based on the documents that make up the ongoing doctoral research that aims to elucidate the discursive status of teaching photography in journalism courses in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A study on public policies is presented as an object of research in different areas of knowledge, considering the growth of publications on the subject in scientific journals. The objective is to analyze the scientific production on public policies in Brazil, to understand the development of this production, in addition to verifying the contribution of Minas Gerais in the period from 1980 to 2018. The theoretical framework deals with scientific production, scientific communication and communication channels, formal communication, scientific journals, bibliometrics, discourse analysis and public policies. The research is characterized by the quantitative, descriptive and bibliographic approach. The research corpus formed by the set of scientific articles linked to the journals indexed in the SciELO and Scopus databases. Data analysis based on bibliometric techniques and discourse analysis. It seeks to know the scientific journals, authors and institutions; and learn about public policy issues of interest to the academic community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the 1940s, the radio exploded in Brazil and, with it, the controversy over the language spoken in its microphones. This article analyses the debate on the radio language in the journal Cultura Política: revista mensal de estudos brasileiros (1941-1945). The corpus was composed of 21 articles and interpreted in the light of Discourse Analysis and History of Linguistic Ideas in Brazil. The study aims understand the meanings projected for the languages (foreign and national) and the state attempt to organize a language policy to the radio. The Cultura Política discourse opposes a real Brazil - multilingual and diversified - to an ideal Brazil - monolingual and uniform. The radio spread the languages and popular speech and needed to be regulated by the State toward a national and standard language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective. To understand the meaning of the nurse’s commitment to nursing care. Method. Phenomenological study, developed in seven Family Health Units in Salvador, Bahia, with twenty-one nurses, through the phenomenological interview. For the understanding of the discourses the Humanistic-Existential-Personalist Triad Configuration was used. Results. Nurses’ commitment has dimensions, their meaning represents the very essence of the profession, is directed to nursing care based on satisfaction, recognition, motivation, ethics and the search for a change in the health standards of the population. It was revealed in resource constraints in health services, in the limitations of professional competencies, in daily assignments, in the process of humanizing care, in solving user problems, in monitoring families and in linking with the community. Conclusions. It was possible to learn a face of the phenomenon by revealing the sense of commitment as the essence of nursing care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the nationality regulation on radio and newspapers, trying to understand its effect over the language policy in those communication vehicles. For this purpose, we based the discussion on the Discourse Analysis and the History of Linguistic Ideas in Brazil. The corpus involves the legislation for the mass media published during the Vargas Era (1930-1945). In general, we discuss how the nationality policy resulted in a policy for the languages on radio and the written press, when increased or limited the right to speak for native or naturalized Brazilians and foreigners. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the right to speak regulation was an attempt to control the discourse production causing a foreigner interdiction in those particular vehicles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this text we consider some of the journeys and recurring struggles over meanings and discoursivities in Amazonia, via a study focused on the life of the Macurany riverside community in Parintins, Amazonas state, Brazil. Parintins forms a strong case study site as the city provides an intersection of the contradictions of Amazonian social formations. Accordingly, we used studies and interpretations of regional history, and of riverside and indigenous communities, to evaluate and relate, through the materialistic perspective of Discourse Analysis, these interpretations in contrast with the reality of this riverside community of indigenous origin. We found continuing resonances of the discursivities originally installed during colonization. Such a situation calls for increased investment in artistic works and, school- and academic- and journalism-based activities to analyse and clarify, and also help resolve the problems and debilitating effects of the symbolic, moral, political, social, economic and physical violence caused by those discursivities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]