A Análise do Discurso consolidou-se nas últimas três décadas, especialmente no Brasil, como um campo profícuo nos estudos linguísticos que sustentam a articulação de seu objeto, a língua, com a exterioridade. A relação entre língua, sujeito e história, própria dos estudos discursivos, alavancou inúmeras pesquisas e trabalhos que tratam de aspectos e problemáticas caros à sociedade, como a política (o discurso político), a mídia (o discurso midiático), a educação (o discurso pedagógico), a história (os discursos históricos e sociais) etc., articuladas entre si. Nesse cenário, a Revista Heterotópica, criada em 2018 e com a primeira publicação prevista para o primeiro semestre de 2019, surgiu de uma iniciativa do Laboratório de Estudos Discursivos Foucaultianos – LEDIF-UFU visando a contribuir para a difusão e visibilidade dos trabalhos de pesquisadores brasileiros e estrangeiros em Análise do Discurso e, assim, fortalecer os estudos linguísticos discursivos.
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Copyright (c) 2025 Mariano Dagatti, Vinícius Durval Dorne http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
This study aims to understand that the elements of the charge of Jean Galvão operated, in the reception of the charge, the formation of the sense of humor in the spatial-temporal framework of the tragedy of the floods in Rio Grande do Sul and, In this way, they led the tragic to be read as comic work. The research is based on the Dialogic Analysis of Discourse, mainly based on references such as Bakhtin (1997, 2002, 2010), Volóchinov (2021), Morson; Emerson (2008), Sobral (2009), Cardoso (2013), Queiroz (2017) and Gonçalves (2017). For this, follows the qualitative research approach, of the descriptive type. The analysis showed that the negative sense of humor was formed by disassociation, in the constitution of the senses made during reading, of the verbal and visual planes, before an essentially verb-visual statement. At the same time, it was found that despite the negative reception of the production, the charge achieved its purpose to provoke public reflection, although for the proper understanding of the enunciative project of the producer, it was necessary its explanation by the producer himself.
Copyright (c) 2024 Aline Milena Borges da Silva Dias http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Black women are returning to hair straightening: this is the narrative that has appeared on several of the country’s main news portals between 2021 and 2024, reflecting what has come to be called “hair freedom” in Brazil. In this context, to shed light on the complexities underlying the narratives surrounding curly hair, this article examines the discursive shift between the movements of hair transition and hair freedom in contemporary Brazil, using theoretical assumptions from Foucaultian Discourse Studies, particularly the concepts of power/knowledge, resistance, and their multiple manifestations in discourse. Regarding the corpus, the article focuses on the analysis of statements found in prominent Brazilian magazines, revealing how the dynamics of knowledge and power produce and transform the discourses about curly hair in Brazil. The discussion explores the complexity of these narratives, highlighting the social and media pressures that continuously generate new forms of power and, consequently, new forms of resistance.
Copyright (c) 2024 Maria Luiza Chianca http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The meaning effect of the absence of meaning
The aim is to investigate the emergence of pedagogical discourse in academic writing of dissertations developed within the scope of French Discourse Analysis. This effect consists of the predominance of paraphrase over polysemy, that is, the maintenance of a sedimented form of discourse at the expense of the operation of displacement upon that same discourse. Through two dissertations drawn from the archives of UNICAMP and UFSC, we identified that the irruption of this discursive type suggests a subject who, when writing from the position of a postgraduate student, has their speech constrained by discursive anteriorities that point both to production conditions external to the university and to those unfolding within it. These anteriorities impact the subject's speech, as they encounter difficulty in inscribing themselves in their research process, resulting in a sense effect lacking in meaning, since the appearance of circular saying indicates the difficulty in performing a gesture close to polysemy, that is, in articulating this saying with what was proposed to research. With that said, what is at stake in academic writing that allows for a discourse that constitutes itself as an end in itself rather than something articulated with the object of research?
Copyright (c) 2024 Rafaela Ramos da Silva Neves http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Manifestos of resistance in speeches by Special Education teachers about inclusion
This work was interested in thinking about the manifestation of resistance in the discourse produced by special education teachers about educational inclusion, especially meaning in the relationship with the other, the regular classroom teacher. Special education begins to assume an important role in promoting inclusion and serving students considered the target audience for special education. This creates the need for a close relationship between the special education teacher and teachers in regular classrooms. The study is affiliated with the post-structuralist perspective to think about the ways of meaning about inclusion. In this direction, discourse analysis from a Foucauldian perspective was also followed, especially to understand how the meanings of resistance, which prevail in the results, are mobile and fluctuating. It is clear that the manifestation of resistance in teaching discourse is exercised in three main moments: The first of confronting or denying inclusion, as a fallible and inconceivable methodological element; the second as a fight to be won, conflictual and oppositional, faced, if necessary, in an oppressive way. Finally, the third, and lesser perception in the study, but which was constituted as a production of new meanings, in the sense of exercising a counter-conduct.
Copyright (c) 2024 Daiane Pinheiro, Ana Sofia Freire http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
This paper aims to analyze the discourse of the Governor of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema, during the launch of the “Trilhas de Futuro” Program. The objective is to identify the discursive formations present in the current Governor's speech, examining how truth effects are produced in his statements that emerge through linguistic materiality, in light of Franco-Brazilian discourse analysis and Foucauldian tools. To achieve this, the article is divided into three parts: the first introduces the tools that will guide the discursive analysis, namely, governmentality and regimes of truth; the second presents the discursive analysis; and the third discusses this project's potential implications for Technological and Vocational Education (TVE) in Minas Gerais. As a result, neoliberal discursive formations were observed, wherein the discourse (re)produces truths and operates as a practice of control and social domination by asserting that the salvation of young people lies in vocational education, thereby creating a false choice for young people regarding their future, as the courses offered are mostly aligned with the needs of companies. Finally, a subtle shift of responsibility from the state to the private sector was identified, as these institutions are the ones that will offer the courses.
Copyright (c) 2024 Laís Camargo de Barros, Luciana Aparecida Silva de Azeredo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
In this paper, we analyze the narratives and resistances of Guerreira, a young Black trans* woman, in the school environment. To this end, we utilized a Foucauldian and neomaterialist methodology to understand how discursive and material-discursive practices influence the lives of trans* individuals in specific schools. We conducted interviews via WhatsApp during the Covid-19 pandemic, which served as the basis for our qualitative study. The results indicate that gender and race dispositifs shape Guerreira's subjectivity and resistance, revealing the complexity of interactions between the school environment and dissident identities. We conclude that it is necessary to reconfigure pedagogical and institutional practices to promote the inclusion and representativeness of trans* people, emphasizing the urgency of redefining educational projects to celebrate dissident subjectivities and combat exclusion.
Copyright (c) 2024 Bruno Henrique Machado Oliveira, Atilio Butturi Junior http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
This article aims to problematize the discourses about the space occupied by women in capoeira, as well as the meanings attributed to female corporeality in this markedly masculine universe. This discussion considers the influences of the social, political and resistance bonds of capoeira in its relationship with Afro-Brazilian cultures, as well as the influence of the sporting perspective adopted during the nationalist project of the Estado Novo. In contrast to the sports version based on physical performance, I present the foundations of malícia and the conception of body-capoeira as an alternative form of performativity originating from Afro-diasporic cultures. This analysis also demands an understanding of the intersectionalities of race, gender and class and is based on the theoretical precepts of decolonial studies and black feminisms. Based on this theoretical elaboration, I propose the analysis of two news items selected from the internet, broadcast between the years 2022 and 2023, about the current discursive constructions that permeate female participation in capoeira. I close the work with the understanding that the analysis of the production of subjectivities based on the woman's capoeira body requires in-depth studies and I highlight the importance of guiding this discussion in line with the principles of Afro-Brazilian cultures and heritage.
Copyright (c) 2024 Kátia Linhaus de Oliveira http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The representation of fat bodies in animated films for children
The body is an element of cultural expression that bears the marks of the society to which it belongs. It plays a central role in the representation of subjectivity, a process mediated by discourse, understood here, as a dimension of social practice. Regarding these assumptions, this paper undertakes an investigation, based on Critical Discourse Analysis (Chouliaraki; Fairclough, 1999; Fairclough, 2003), of the representations of fat bodies in Disney princess animated feature films. Try to find out the relationships between the stereotypes fostered by media discourses and the construction of these subjects' identities in contemporary society. To this end, the analysis was carried out using the three functions pointed out by Fairclough (2003) – representation, identification and action. The analysis shows that the discourses of the movie industry construct and reinforce stereotypes, especially of gender and beauty. The characters in Disney animated films for children who are not thin represent only secondary figures and/or reinforce social prejudices.
Copyright (c) 2024 Adair Bonini, Daniela Campregher Ferreira, Luiza de Melo Ferreira http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
In this theoretical essay, we intend to continue the previous considerations on the "ordinary of meaning", as this concept appears in Michel Pêcheux's thought. We propose a way of giving consequences to the need to think about praxis within a discursive theory of meaning and language by reinterpreting the "primacy of metaphor", the semantic principle that underpins the Discourse Analysis he developed. It is thus argued that from within the very proposition of the "primacy of metaphor", the "effect of meaning" can then be better understood as a laborious effort to make sense, also making it possible to reflect on the possibility of a discursive performativity. We are therefore moving towards the hypothesis of the practical materiality of meaning, highlighting the theoretical role of the subject's discursive practice with language.
Copyright (c) 2024 Filipo Figueira http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
This article aims to reflect on the public and media debate on gender and sexuality in psychoanalysis, by mapping which discursive formations materialize in this discussion. To do this, we resort to the theoretical devices of Discourse Analysis (Pêcheux-Orlandi route) in dialogue with decolonial and queer studies. The study takes as its starting point, which also serves as a time frame, Paul Preciado's intervention at the School of the Freudian Cause, and the debates and clashes that followed. It was possible to notice that the Spanish philosopher's intervention triggered a discursive scene that denounces the way in which the psychoanalytic field has been showing itself on the specific issue of discussions of gender and sexuality.
Copyright (c) 2024 Letícia Soares Zampiêr, Wedencley Alves http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
In this work, we address some of the discourses that constitute the Portuguese language textbook (LD) in the discursive context in which it is given meaning. For this, we understand that textbook, in addition to its linguistic-multisemiotic aspect as a means of structuring content intended for teaching-learning, is a historical and ideological object of teaching, precisely because it consists of a historicized materiality founded on discursivities that create a object of social value constitutive of the ideological perspectives attributed to it. Starting from a discursive approach, with a Pêcheuxtian and Orlandian orientation, we outline discussions about this pedagogical object, trying to highlight the effects of meaning on the (in)utility of this material for teaching the Portuguese language, notably with regard to questions surrounding its own process of elaboration, selection and distribution, in addition to carrying out an approach to official discourses regarding these aspects, materialized in the National Book and Teaching Material Program (PNLD). Finally, we found that the epistemological context has, little by little, been causing, in recent years, fundamental changes for the improvement and innovation of textbooks, which results in saying that the discursively pointed out impertinences do not supplant the function that this material has in teaching- learning.
Copyright (c) 2024 Aurílio Soares da Silva, Janete Silva dos Santos, João de Deus Leite http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Black heterotopias in teachers’ discursivity
This work aims to analyze the meanings of black heterotopias in schools based on a series of formulations extracted from interviews with school’s teachers. Foucauldian studies comprehend the theoretical sources visited for the development of the research, especially the concept of heterotopia, or other sites, given the understanding that it leads to subjectivation of hegemonic spaces recreated from micro-struggles of subjects who have had their subjectivities denied. Considering schools as places of struggle, the analyses verify the crossings in the teachers’ discursivities, in which the discursive positions of students also emerge in reference to types of knowledge that are denied in the school environment. On the other hand, the analyses also show the heterotopias of recreating practices of freedom that indicate the possibility of schools accommodating discursivities that otherwise would only touch the outskirts of the school curriculum.
Copyright (c) 2024 Diego Armando dos Santos Mota, Nilsa Brito Ribeiro http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Political Discourse and TV Panelism in Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic reconfigured the processes of mediatization of political discourse in Argentina. This article analyzes how television panelism thematized compulsory isolation from the case of Cortá por Lozano (Telefé), taking as a starting point the press conference of President Alberto Fernández on March 19, 2020, which inaugurated isolation in the country. The hypothesis that supports this work is that panelism contributes to the mediatization of political discourse through a double movement: the media adapt governmental discourses to their own narrative logics, while political actors internalize media values. From studies on mediatization (Verón, 1998; Strömbäck, 2008) and the semiodiscursive analysis of television (Carlón, 2015; Herám, 2021), the six broadcasts of the program that respond to the first week of mandatory preventive social isolation (ASPO) are examined. Cortá por Lozano not only disseminated official information, but also reformulated the political event from a moralizing narrative about isolation and the reinforcement of the presidential figure through discursive and visual resources. These results provide clues regarding television discourses and the symbolic construction of political events, citizenship and authority.
Copyright (c) 2025 Agustina Ahibe http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
This paper analyzes the link between media discourses, the moral dimension and the digital popularity of two feminist women. In this opportunity, with respect to Djamila Ribeiro, black woman and Brazilian feminist, and Carolina Sanín, white woman and Colombian feminist. For this purpose, we opted for the construction of a myopic methodological design, neo-materialist, feminist and third worldist. The analysis confirms that the media discourse is agenciated by the moral dimension that sustains stereotypes of gender, race, beauty, age, social class and nationality in the assumption of an ambiguous ˈtechnological selfˈ, which materializes off-line and on-line, between resistance and normalization. Thus, although the digital discourses of feminist women produce ambiguous affects and media effects, information systems (IS) work by exponentially expanding the moral dimension of the same, generating fragmented information and disconnection, limiting context and interrelation.
Copyright (c) 2025 Ana Sofía Pabón Chaves http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
This article analyzes, from the perspective of the action of centripetal and centrifugal forces, an enunciative scene in which Priest Washington Almeida has an ableist speech perceived in an utterance in religious context that might highlight worldviews of the Evangelical Christian Segment regarding autism. To this end, we selected a video from the profile @autismobr, on the Instagram platform, that replicates an enunciative scene from the aforementioned minister as well as the answers of internet users about the position of the religious leader. The theoretical-methodological reflection is based on the Dialogical Theory of Language (TDL) from Bakhtin’s Circle and, above all, on the considerations regarding dialogical relationships, voices, and centripetal and centrifugal forces. We are also anchored in studies about inclusion of people with disabilities and religious discourse. The analysis of this work indicates that the pastor's religious discourse reflects and refracts a Christian worldview that reveals the understanding that disability is the result of a “divine condemnation”, which may suggest the consummation of sin. However, the internet users' comments present movements of centralization and decentralization regarding to this Christian perspective.
Copyright (c) 2025 Jucileide Maria Oliveira Cândido, Manassés Morais Xavier http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The monogamic apparatus and regimes of truth
This article conducts a discursive analysis of cisgender and heterosexual monogamy based on posts addressing the topic on Instagram. The relevance of the study is justified by the identified gap in linguistic/discursive research on the subject. Drawing on studies that challenge its naturalized condition, the analysis proceeds from the premise that monogamy constitutes a social and discursive construction. The research employs a Foucauldian framework of discursive analysis, focusing on the concepts of énoncé (statement) and discursive formation, and examines selected discursive materials from the social network to understand how the monogamic dispositive operates in digital contemporaneity. The methodology adopts the principles of dispersion, rarity, and exteriority proposed by Foucault, analyzing posts selected between September 2023 and April 2024. The study contributes to denaturalizing contemporary affective practices, not to condemn specific relational configurations, but to expand the field of ethical possibilities in the constitution of affects.
Copyright (c) 2025 Laura Colli Gon, Luciana Carmona Garcia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Courage of Regretful Mothers to narrate themselves in the web
Based on Foucaultian Discursive Studies, we propose to archeogenealogically analyze self-narratives of regretful mothers who share their frustrations regarding motherhood on social media, clashing with patriarchal power in the hope of freeing themselves from social constraints that consider motherhood as a natural destiny for women and, therefore, something that should not be challenged or denied, much less hated. We bring these narratives of self – materialized on the Instagram account @maearrependida – closer to the critical restlessness of Michel Foucault in his last courses dedicated to subjectivity and truth, prioritized here as a reading and analysis grid in order to highlight the production and circulation of the statement “Regretful mothers” understood as a node in a network that interconnects, within and outside social networks, countless women who, when narrating themselves, rely on the courage of truth (parrhesia), face risks and, above all, cause virtual fractures in the device of motherhood, opening up spaces for possible self-transformations, that is, freedom.
Copyright (c) 2025 Denise Gabriel Witzel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
“There is no poverty that can withstand 14 hours of work”
Social media, more precisely Instagram, are home to diverse content niches. Among them, the financial market, in which Thiago Nigro stands out. In this sense, based on a corpus of 60 occurrences of the term “enrichment”, Nigro’s speech was studied. Thus, the aim is to analyze the paraphrases around the term ‘enrichment’ in these contents and understand how it is constructed, what points of view affect it and what values ​​are associated with it. Furthermore, we sought to evaluate meritocracy in these statements and investigate whether the influencer considers economic and socio-historical differences. The research is descriptive and explanatory, as it aims to collect, select, and classify textual data associated with enrichment and analyze its object: the values ​​and worldviews linked to Nigro´s speech. The theoretical-methodological references are based on French Discourse Analysis (FDA), mainly the works of Michel Pêcheux and his peers. The analysis procedures stem from Freire (2014). So far, heterogeneity has been perceived, noted in the division of occurrences into two main paraphrastic groups: Sacrifice and Destiny. By concatenating enrichment and personal merit, such discourses are part of a capitalist and liberal Ideological Formation, given the valorization of capital and individual action, notably detached from social determinations.
Copyright (c) 2025 Camila Alves Melo Ferreira, Renan Mazzola http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
In this article, I seek to describe and analyze how Bolsonaro's discursive practice about the Brazilian and international political field, undertaken in the first two years of the pandemic, constitutes a political regime for the production of truths capable of activating power relations and forms of governing subjects and reality. Combining conceptual traits derived from the Foucauldian critical apparatus, such as the notions of discourse, truth and power, I argue that the analysis of the construction of truth should be rethought in the light of the politics of truth in force in our historical time, a perspective that will underpin the proposition of the notion of Discursive Microphysics as a theoretical-methodological path for analyzing the construction of truth in the Bolsonaro space of truth. Therefore, taking the enunciative materiality as a strategic space for the construction of truth, we aim to indicate that Bolsonaro's discursiveness, rather than denying pandemic reality, aims to reinscribe it according to the truth produced within its discursive grammar.
Copyright (c) 2025 Lucas Sloboda http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Anti-democratic demonstrations during the pandemic:
This article is an excerpt from one of the analyses carried out in a master's dissertation defended in the Postgraduate Program of the Federal University of Pernambuco. Here, we present an analysis of the framing given by Jornal Nacional to the phenomenon of anti-democratic demonstrations during the most critical period of the pandemic. The phenomenon raised controversial questions about the Bolsonaro government due to the demands for the closure of the National Congress and the Supreme Federal Court. From the constructivist perspective of journalism, we demand the need for journalism to take a position in situations of crisis of democracy and risk to the institutions of the Rule of Law. With this, we also discuss the fallacy of journalistic objectivity and, through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), we identify the positioning of the newscast. In addition to CDA, the article is based, more precisely, on the formulations of Bakhtin (Dialogic Discourse Analysis) and Jaqueline Authier-Revuz, regarding the heterogeneities of discourse.
Copyright (c) 2025 Marya Edwarda Souza Lapenda, Heitor Costa Lima da Rocha http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Enunciative valuation and Point of View (POV) in online comments on the commencement speech of Lula's third presidency term
In 2022, President Lula delivered an emotional speech at the Commencement Ceremony of his third term in office. Several news agencies published parts of his speech on their social media profiles, a format that allows for users’ interactions, where many comments about the content of the speech or the speaker’s position can be observed. This communicative event serves as the object for analysis of Points of View (POVs) within the theoretical frameworks of Rabatel (2015). However, the concept of POV seems to establish epistemological relations with the concept of responsive activity derived from the Dialogic Discourse Analysis (DDA) framework, so this article focuses on developing connections between these fields of language studies. Thus, this study shows how macro-syntactic relations (Rabatel, 2015) constitute the forms in which individuals assume enunciative and evaluative perspectives through the construction of their statements in usage contexts within network interactions. One of the main questions for this research is to understand the processes involved in discursive positioning, from the linguistic level through to the enunciative scope, considering the affordances available in digital environments such as Instagram.
Copyright (c) 2025 Tiago Lessas José de Almeida, Renata Valéria de Araújo Lima, Sônia Virgínia Martins Pereira http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
This paper aims to analyze, in light of Foucauldian Discourse Studies, the discourses present in an advertising piece about female sexuality, identifying how they are constituted, how they reflect or challenge historical taboos, and examining the power relations and subjectification practices present in the advertised material. In this research, we analyze the advertising piece for the perfume Her Code Touch by O Boticário. We begin with the assumption that female sexuality was not discussed for a long time, because women were considered solely for procreation; however, there has been progress, and women have gained more autonomy and access to pleasure. Thus, it is observed that advertising reworks and instrumentalizes discourses on female sexuality, bringing forth new effects of meaning and truths in contemporary consumer society.
Copyright (c) 2025 Weliton Tavares Vieira, Aline Salles Panhan http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
With the consolidation of Journalism in society, an ideal image of both the professional and his/her work was solidified in people's imagination. Even today, the area often conflicts with what is expected of it, such as total impartiality in the production of news and fidelity to what is considered fact. This work reflects on the desuperficialization of the journalistic subject-position based on the character Scott Templeton, introduced in the fifth season of the series The Wire (2002). To this end, it seeks to understand and problematize the functioning of the journalist's social projection in his production of senses. In this direction, the research is supported by the discursive studies of Orlandi (2015, 2022) and Traquina (2020), in dialogue with Davallon (1999), Nietzsche (2019), Dardot e Laval (2016) e Han (2024). In conclusion, the multifaceted character of journalism and its historicity make it impossible for the effect of impartiality, at the same time that such an illusion is fed by a neoliberal capitalist system.
Copyright (c) 2025 Jônathas Grunheidt Vilela Ordine, Marluza Terezinha da Rosa http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Discursive Constructions of the Feminine in Cartoons About the Movie Barbie (2023)
This article investigates the representation of the feminine in two cartoons related to the film Barbie (2023), created by the artists Sponholz and Quinho. Under the theoretical framework of French Discourse Analysis, the objective is to analyze how the cartoons, using humor and gender stereotypes, address the role of women in media considered to target female audiences, tackling social and political issues. From the reading of the two cartoons, discourse sequences were selected to understand how the role of women is portrayed and how their search for a cultural consumption object is represented. The results show that both cartoons, although different in formats and narratives, project women as passive consumers and associate them with trivial, superficial interests, as if the desire to watch a movie contrasts with serious social problems presented by men. Through discourse analysis, the article discusses how the perpetuation of gender stereotypes and the strengthening of a patriarchal discursive formation diminishes the female role and reinforces traditional roles. The analyzed cartoons criticize the consumption of entertainment that has been considered directed at women, reflecting a limited and stigmatized view of the feminine.
Copyright (c) 2025 Aléxia Maria Lopes de Souza http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerged in the 20th century with the proposal of teaching machines to simulate human intelligence (McCarthy et al., 2006). In recent decades, this technology has evolved and come to play a central role in the management of both public and private life (Vicente, 2024). Algorithms, which organize and filter data, are an essential part of this process, controlling information flows and mapping user preferences (Gillespie, 2014). On social media, they operate through recommendation systems that personalize the content shown to users, creating the so-called "filter bubbles" (Pariser, 2011). In an algorithmic society, these systems can be understood as new discursive procedures, as they control, select, organize, and redistribute data, defining what appears, to whom, and when. Analyzing this dynamic through the lens of Foucauldian Discourse Studies, particularly by drawing on the concepts of discourse, power, control, and subject formation, this article problematizes the interference of AI in the circulation of discourse on Instagram, with a focus on content related to marginalized groups. The hypothesis is that social networks, beyond being spaces of expression, function as platforms that shape discursive visibility according to algorithmic and commercial logics. A clear example is the practice of shadowbanning, which operates as a contemporary mechanism of discursive exclusion. As a preliminary conclusion, it is observed that algorithms, by limiting the reach of certain discourses, reconfigure, under new technical conditions, the exclusion procedures described by Michel Foucault (1996).
Copyright (c) 2025 Laís Sousa Di Lauro, Regina Baracuhy http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
This study aims to investigate how the disinformation on digital networks contribute to the production of the discourse of fear within the context of vaccination against the coronavirus in Brazil. In theoretical and methodological terms, this research is based on Foucauldian Discourse Studies, using the concepts of discourse, truth and biopolitics, in addition to discussions regarding the history of fear, by Delumeau (2009) and Halbwachs (2009), as well as those related to the history of emotions (Courtine, 2013 ; 2020; Courtine; Corbin; Vigarello, 2020). To further develop our discussion, we will analyze a fake news about the coronavirus vaccine, presented on the website of an alternative media source named Jornal Tribuna Nacional, in addition to a pronouncement issued by former president of the Republic of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro in relation to the vaccines. As a result, we conclude that disinformation is also estimulated by the way digital social media are operating, besides the fact that Big Techs hold power over the information that may or may not circulate. Therefore, regulation of digital social media is necessary to counteract this problem, which is of global concern.
Copyright (c) 2025 Rayane Medeiros dos Santos Cavalcante http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
The Visual Discursiveness of Neopentecostalism on Instagram
This article examines the visual discursivity of two prominent Brazilian neopentecostal leaders on Instagram, Edir Macedo and R. R. Soares, aiming to understand how their posts – here considered as enunciations – objectify the faithful and produce subjectivities within the contemporary political-media context of the 2022 Brazilian presidential elections. Drawing on a methodological approach grounded in Foucauldian Discourse Studies, the article investigates the complex interrelation between religion, media, and politics. It analyzes how photographic images, combined with texts and other visual elements, produce effects of truth and shape social practices. The analysis, part of an ongoing doctoral research project, shows that in the enunciated posts, these religious leaders are objectified as “Spiritual Subjects,” articulating religious values with political values, where the demonstration of faith is linked to voting decisions in favor of candidates supposedly aligned with the religious positions advocated. Discursively, a dualist functioning of “good” versus “evil” is observed, which, at the time, referred respectively to Bolsonaro and Lula. It is noted how the production of effects of truth within the digital religious field operates in the conduct of pastors over the faithful, thereby consolidating pastoral influence and producing a specific subjectivity grounded in unquestioning obedience within the contemporary politico-religious landscape.
Copyright (c) 2025 André Luiz de Castro Silva Nascente http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
In this article, we seek to analyze the book Alguma Poesia (2022 [1930]) by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, in order to reflect the author's discursive positioning in his canonical space, based on discussions on Literary Discourse Analysis proposed by Dominique Mainguenau (2012). We opted for a bibliographical methodological approach, in which we mobilize notions and theories proposed by Maingueneau to analyze the discourse present in Drummond's work, thus seeking to identify the different forms of legitimization of his discursive positioning, by searching for irony and other traits in his poems. that mark his style and a certain style of modernism, such as free verse, everyday themes, urbanization, among others. We conclude that, through the legitimization of Drummond in the book Alguma Poesia as an author, it is possible to say that the work constitutes an element of the literary discourse of Brazilian modernism and confirms the functioning of authorship as a significant notion for the discourses considered constituents.
Copyright (c) 2024 Manuel Veronez, Márcia Coutinho Silva http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0