From Capitu spoken by a man to the one that speaks in Slutwalk

• Grant number: 16/22223-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2017
• End date: December 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Lucília Maria Abrahão e Sousa
• Grantee: Karen Gabriele Poltronieri
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work aims to analyze how the speeches of a nineteenth-century character reflects much of what is in women from a feminist movement of this century. Using base the theory of French membership Discourse Analysis, along with the support of the wording found in the online pages of the social movement Slutwalk is intended to delineate a parallel to how the inscription of character Capitu of Dom Casmurro work (Machado de Assis, 1899) is spoken and narrated in her time. Still, we work with the hypothesis that Capitu present traits and sayings of an woman named empowered and show herself as a character that was not to be challenged by the dominant ideology imposed by patriarchal society then. (AU)