Análise discursiva do funcionamento do boato: um gênero (im)possível?

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Israel Vieira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Boato; Discurso; Interpretação
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.animaeducacao.com.br/handle/ANIMA/3276

In this research, we analyse how rumors work discursively to find their main regularities and verify if it is possible to think about them a discursive genre. We believe that every utterance can receive a minimal categorization if we take in consideration its predominant effects and structures. To find those regularities, we decided, in our pre-analytic work of corpus build, to compare two discursive materialities with relatively different production conditions to think about how meanings resonate among them. The first materiality, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, is an anti-semitic book from the 20th century which reveals supposed world domination plans by the Jews. The second materiality is the video North Korea wins the group stage on the World Cup, a supposed manipulative propaganda from North Korea¿s government about a fake participation of the country in the 2014 World Soccer Cup. Our research is based on Orlandi (2012a, 2012b, 2013, 2014), establishing connections between rumor and language as it is proposed by the Discourse Analysis. According to Orlandi, the rumor is a news that does not have an author and that is not confirmed by any legitimate institution in society. To find recurrences in both texts, we did a textual analysis based on the works of Serrani (2002) about discursive resonances, who suggests that the meanings are built through the repetition of certain elements. We verified that the rumor stereotypes the subject and remove ambiguities in the relationship between men and the world via a contradictorily ambiguous structure. We concluded that the rumor can be identified as a non-topic genre of discourse, since its characteristics aren¿t socially known. Such characteristics need to be predetermined by the researcher in his analysis.