Women in Discourse

language, politics and truth

Abstract

In this interview, the professor and linguist Mónica Zoppi Fontana initially presents the formation of the research group coordinates for her, entitled “Women in Discourse”, with the enumeration of some works developed by her members. They aim, in common, to encourage reflection on the subjectivation processes of women in our society, through the discourses, and the practices generated from them. Then, the researcher deals with the post-truth, a scenario in which affirmations with a primarily emotional bias prevail, in the field of personal beliefs and ideologies, unlike the statements that seek to be anchored in the closest approximation of the facts. The post-truth was elected the word of the year in 2016 by the Oxford Dictionary. This and other reasons in our political context require discourse analysts to analyze this discursive phenomenon in their relationship with fake news. Although the systematic use of lies, especially in the political field, is not new, what impacts on our current society is the extraordinary degree of circulation and the forms of production of evidence, in their specificities.