THE REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL ACTORS IN ELECTRONIC POSTS: WHAT CHARACTERS INHABIT BRAZILIANS´ POLITICAL IMAGINARY TODAY?

Authors

  • Anna Elizabeth Balocco Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v21i40.33391

Keywords:

the representation of social actors, electronic posts, polemical discourse, social imaginary

Abstract

The study examines Brazilians´ political imaginary after election of president Dilma Roussef, through the investigation of the representation of social actors in electronic posts, published in one particular news site.  Laclau & Mouffe´s argument for the discursive nature of the social and of collective identities (1985) is drawn upon, as well as the concepts of polemical discourse (AMOSSY, 2011), ideology (EAGLETON, 1991; PEDRO, 1997) and social imaginary (FAIRCLOUGH, 2015; CASTORIADIS, 1982). On the basis of van Leeuwen´s (1996) theoretical framework for the study of the representation of social actors in discourse, the study identifies three types of social actors in the corpus; suggests some correlations between positioning and strategies of discursive representation of social actors; as well as introduces some considerations about the heterogeneous and dynamic nature of the social imaginary.

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Author Biography

Anna Elizabeth Balocco, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Graduada em Letras Anglo-germânicas pela Universidade de São Paulo (1976), mestre em Letras pela Universidade Federal Fluminense (1985) e doutora em Linguística pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2000). Pós-doutora em Estudos da Linguagem pela UFF (2007), é Professora Associada do Departamento de Letras Anglo-germânicas da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e atua como docente no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras na mesma instituição. Tanto na graduação (Línguas Estrangeiras Modernas) quanto na pós-graduação (área de concentração em Linguística) tem atuado na área da Análise do Discurso, ocupando-se principalmente dos seguintes temas: sujeito e identidade, no âmbito dos discursos acadêmico e midiático.

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Published

2016-07-01

How to Cite

Balocco, A. E. (2016). THE REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL ACTORS IN ELECTRONIC POSTS: WHAT CHARACTERS INHABIT BRAZILIANS´ POLITICAL IMAGINARY TODAY?. Gragoatá, 21(40). https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v21i40.33391

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 40 (2016): LANGUAGE STUDIES

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Language Articles

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