CULTURAL WARS AND IMAGINARY FORMATIONS OF BRAZILIAN POLITICAL POLARIZATION

A DISCURSIVE STUDY

  • Mailson Fernandes Cabral de Souza Universidade Católica de Pernambuco
  • Nadia Pereira da Silva Gonçalves de Azevedo Universidade Católica de Pernambuco

Abstract

This paper aim to analyze the effects of political polarization on public debate. We took as corpus three texts, one on the Folha de São Paulo newspaper website and two on the Justificando website, belonging to the magazine Carta Capital. They compose a debate that took place at the end of November 2017 between two writers on the meanings of polarization. The theoretical-methodological framework for the study was the french Discourse Analysis and the main concepts used for the composition of the analysis were those of imaginary formations, anticipation, effects of sense and position-subject. As a result, we observe that the polarizing effect of cultural wars makes it impossible to construct common guidelines among groups engaged in political debate, not allowing a break with the politics discourse.

Author Biographies

Mailson Fernandes Cabral de Souza, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco

Mestre em Ciências da Religião pela Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (UNICAP). Atualmente é colaborador e membro do Observatório Transdisciplinar das Religiões no Recife, localizado na UNICAP. Tem experiência na área de pesquisa em Ciências da Religião e Análise do Discurso de linha francesa.

Nadia Pereira da Silva Gonçalves de Azevedo, Universidade Católica de Pernambuco

Professora adjunta II da Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, atuando na Graduação em Fonoaudiologia e como professora e pesquisadora no Programa de Pós-graduação stricto sensu em Ciências da Linguagem.

Published
2018-07-04
Issue
Vol 5 No 4 (2018): Estado, Educação e Conflitos Sociais I
Section
Artigos

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