Political language and gender trouble

• Grant number: 14/04707-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: August 21, 2014
• End date: February 20, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Mónica Graciela Zoppi Fontana
• Grantee: Mónica Graciela Zoppi Fontana
• Host Investigator: Romain Descendre
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École Normale Supérieure, Lyon (ENS), France

Abstract

The present proposal for conducting post-doctoral research abroad is part of the project 'Pec of maids'. Contradictions of class, gender and race in discourse about 'cordial relations in Brazilian home' (PQ-CNPq, process 308973/2013-5), which aims to describe the process of subjectification and the effects of sense produced in the conceptual relation between Genre and Labor, taking as material for analysis the controversy created by the approval of the Constitutional Amendment 66-2012, dubbed by the media "PEC of maids", which regulates domestic work. The overall objective of the project is to describe the contradictory relations through this debate, exploring the reformulation of statements present as discursive memory, in which appear re-signified the boundaries between public and private space, gender, race and class position in relation to the category of Labor. As specific goals, we propose to analyze the designation "domestic work" and its definition in the legal and legislative space (discussion and approval of bills over time), within the media (written, audiovisual and digital press), Trade Union and political space and finally in their impact on virtual networks. The focus of the analysis will be directed to understand the production and circulation of this designation with the status of political language, differentiating it from the everyday uses of the term. Special attention is given to the impact of Gender discussion over this controversy. The theoretical framework adopted is the Theory of Discourse Analysis, as developed from the works of Michel Pêcheux and Eni Orlandi, in articulation with the enunciation studies. (AU)