The utterance is never neutral: a comparative analysis of discourses in the Brazilian and North-American ethnolinguistic communities

• Grant number: 15/25555-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2016
• End date: May 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Portuguese Language
• Principal Investigator: Sheila Vieira de Camargo Grillo
• Grantee: Ana Clara Neves Silveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project of Scientific Iniciation has as focus on the development of a comparative analysis of discourses about the perspectives of maternal language in two different ethno-linguistic communities: Brazil and United States. With this purpose, it was chosen as theoretical basis the works of the Bakhtin's Circle, with focus in the sociological method present at the 1920's works. The corpus is made with five utterance of the Brazilian newspaper "Folha de S.Paulo" and five of the American newspaper "The New York Times". We will try to point the similarities and differences between both ethno-linguistics communities, what are they and how they express their selves, through the analysis of those utterances and their interrelationships with surroundings contexts: the social historical ideological situations, which are materialized in the evaluative accents of the verbal and nonverbal dimensions.