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Early optimism saw possibilities for social media to renew democratic discourse, marked by hopes for individuals from diverse backgrounds to find opportunities to learn from and interact with others different from themselves. This optimism quickly waned as social media seemed to breed ideological homophily marked by "filter bubbles" or "echo chambers." A typical response to the sense of fragmentation has been to encourage exposure to more cross-partisan sources of information. But do outlets that reach across partisan lines in fact generate more civil discourse? And does the civility of discourse hosted by such outlets vary depending on the political context in which they operate? To answer these questions, we identified bubble reachers, users who distribute content that reaches other users with diverse political opinions in recent presidential elections in Brazil, where populism has deep roots in the political culture, and Canada, where the political culture is comparatively moderate. Given that background, this research studies unexplored properties of content shared by bubble reachers, specifically the quality of conversations and comments it generates. We examine how ideologically neutral bubble reachers differ from ideologically partisan accounts in the level of uncivil discourse they provoke, and explore how this varies in the context of the two countries considered. Our results suggest that while ideologically neutral bubble reachers support less uncivil discourse in Canada, the opposite relationship holds in Brazil. Even non-political content by ideologically neutral bubble reachers elicits a considerable amount of uncivil discourse in Brazil. This indicates that bubble reaching and incivility are moderated by the national political context. Our results complicate the simple hypothesis of a universal impact of neutral bubble reachers across contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper presents a systematic review of studies published between 2010 and 2022 couched within the theoretical-methodological framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). Using "Publish or Perish" software, we extracted from Web 760 works related to RST and, considering the number of citations, we analyzed the first 100 results that were organized and described based on their abstracts. For didactic purposes, we classified these studies into the following criteria: (i) works that couldn't be analyzed due to accessibility issues; (ii) works focusing on theorization and the description of various linguistic phenomena; (iii) studies using corpus creation and exploration; and (iv) investigations on computational applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP). In addition, among the data collected, we conducted a brief analysis of RST works developed by Brazilian researchers. As a result, we present an overview of RST studies in the last decade, allowing for the creation of research programs that consider the projects already developed and the advances of the area in Brazil and worldwide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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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]

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]

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Social media is increasingly viewed as a game changer in political struggles worldwide. Yet, even as its global reach and impact are now evident, its mechanisms of legitimation of organisations and public policies are still unexplored. This article discusses 'communicative situations' (Van Dijk, 2015) extracted from social network platforms concerning the dispute for the (de)legitimation of public universities in Brazil during the campaign and administration of a far-right government. Applying critical discourse analysis, we show the implications of the communication architecture of these platforms for the processes of discursive legitimation. Interactions driven by social identification change the text to be consumed by subsequent users, shifting the debate from technical to identity-based argumentative topos. Our contribution is two-fold: (1) we explore the struggle for legitimacy in the open channels of social media, where the institutional environment cannot suppress deviant opinions and highlight the politics of legitimation; and (2) we demonstrate how actors can legitimise the disinvestment in higher education, before managerial decisions reach universities, through discourses that would not be immediately associated with neoliberalism such as moral conservatism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deconstructs the dominant Western discourses of childhood innocence and dependence to better understand the importance of cultural contexts in child and youth care (CYC) work. It challenges dominant discourses as they relate to work in CYC settings cross-culturally. Exploring her personal experiences doing CYC work in a favela (slum) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the author argues that CYC workers must be flexible and reflexive about the realities of the people with whom they work, or risk reifying the very issues they seek to address. In short, CYC workers can become part of the problem if they are not deeply aware of the ways they might reproduce these dominant discourses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The current paper has as objective make a reading of the discourses present in the news displayed on Channel 9 - Argentine news program - concerning the views of the columnist Arnaldo Jabor, the Jornal da Globo, during urban protests occurred in Brazil in June 2013. The program published on YouTube under the title "international joke turns Rede Globo", the disgruntled columnist evidence. Sample, from transmedia storytelling concepts, images of demonstrators and composes a mosaic of information relevant to research in the area of communication, specifically in understanding public opinion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we consider language as the symbolic object that constitutes the subject and also social memory, taking into account the fact that it is a socially constructed unit, thus permeable to the tensions and struggles for power. The work of politics on memory and also on language, frequently imperceptible and insidious, always has a silenced face, the result of social struggles for the control of discourse. In the discussion, conceived at the confluence of the fields of social memory and French discourse analysis, we examine some cases in which processes of silencing operated in the relationship of subjects with their mother tongue, acting in the process of institutionalization of the Portuguese language in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article proposes a reflection on a place for epistemological studies about the Bakhtin Circle, as well as it also reflects on the perspectives of Brazilian approaches to that. It also sheds light to the issues concerning the production, the circulation and the reception of works of the Russian Circle in order to understand why, in Brazil, we can speak of Dialogic Discourse Analysis (DDA), affiliating the so-called dialogical philosophy of language to an analytical theory, grounded in the relation between linguistics and cross-linguistics. In order to do that, this paper focuses on the notions of dialogue, ideological sign, subject and exotopia. The hypothesis put forward is that, unlike other Analyzes of Discourses, the theoretical-analytical method of the Circle is dialogical. This is the peculiarity of its proposal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Anthology of essays about Brazil: identity (ies) and memories. Taking into account the problematic of national identity in a discursive perspective (PÊCHEUX, 1990; ORLANDI, 1999), this paper aims to reflect upon two essay collections: Nenhum Brasil existe (João Cezar Rocha) and Morte e progresso: cultura brasileira como apagamento de rastros (Francisco Foot Hardman), establishing connections between the archive memory and the interdiscourse. In this case, I examined the relationship between linguistic and discoursive materiality in the domain of formulation (title and introduction) considering the implications concerned with anthologies in representations of Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Looking at Brazilian economic discourse, in this article, we look at how mathematization of economics has advanced in the country in the last three decades. For this, we have classified into several categories all articles published in three major Brazilian economic journals (Revista Brasileira de Economia, Estudos Econômicos, and Revista de Economia Política) and the publications of ANPEC meetings from 1981 to 2010, according to the type of argument used. A total of 5,733 articles were analyzed. We attempt to see how mathematization of economic discourse developed, and found that there was an increased use of a formalized language from the mid-1990s onwards. Finally, to confirm our findings, we focus on the process of mathematization through the observation of a quantitative variable: equations per article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes inalienability in the Wauja (Arawak) language in the context of Brazilian Upper Xinguan culture. Wauja grammar encodes a distinction between alienable and inalienable possession that marks kin, body parts, and other terms and that largely but not perfectly overlaps with a local cultural category of emblematic possessions. I analyze how grammatical and cultural aspects of inalienable possession combine in discourse and exchange to contribute to the social identities of possessors. I present an ethnographic account of the role of inalienability in Wauja grammar and discourse in the disruption and repair of social relationships between groups in Upper Xinguan ritual. I argue for a mutually reinforcing relationship between grammatical categories and sociocultural meaning. I suggest that attention to language and possession, in addition to language and identity, is important for cross culturally comparative sociolinguistic analysis of such connections. (Inalienable possession, grammatical categories, discourse, exchange, Upper Xingu, Wauja (Arawak), ethnolinguistic identity)* [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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