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| Author(s): |
Daniel Nascimento Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2010-01-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Kanavillil Rajagopalan;
Raimundo Ruberval Ferreira;
Maria Paula Frota;
Dina Maria Martins Ferreira;
Maria Viviane do Amaral Veras
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| Advisor: | Kanavillil Rajagopalan; Charles Briggs |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation, inscribed in the field of Linguistic Pragmatics in its interface with Linguistic Anthropology, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, pursues a possible consequence of a core assumption made by the linguistic turn in the human sciences -namely, the idea that language is a form of action. At stake is the claim that among the shapes that this action might assume, violence is a very salient one. Inasmuch as violence is not only a destructive concept, but also a productive one, I seek to understand how signification itself is rendered possible and shaped by violence. Aiming at depicting the silent but nonetheless painful symbolic violence that haunts language use, I undertake an analysis of the (violent) symbolic forms through which the Northeast of Brazil (Nordeste), the country's poorest geographical area, is represented in the Southeastern media, mainly in the wealthiest state of São Paulo. The ways in which subaltern subjectivities are demeaned, derogated, ridiculed, despised in many pieces of Brazilian media reveal ways in which language is used to hurt the other, specifically the other who represents the gender, the race and the space that one does not want to inhabit. A discussion of the central role of the constitution, production, and communicability of violence in language use means ultimately that critical linguistics should bring in, along the lines of recent approaches of the relation between violence and signification, the question of violence as one of its avenues of inquiry (AU) | |