A feminização linguístico-discursiva no jornal A Classe Operária (1925-1930) : política linguística em perspectiva dialógica

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Boenavides, Débora Luciene Porto
• Orientador(a): Di Fanti, Maria da Glória Corrêa
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Departamento: Escola de Humanidades
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Análise Dialógica do Discurso; Escrita de Mulheres; Feminismo Dialógico; Feminização Linguístico-Discursiva; Jornal A Classe Operária; Política Linguística
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/10340

Currently, the discussion on language policies proposed by socially oppressed groups to mitigate prejudices established on language and make languages more egalitarian and inclusive is in vogue. Linguistic-discursive feminization, i.e., the valorization and use of feminine linguistic forms, is one of these proposals, with the aim of, from the discursive stylization, making women visible in their discourses in the most varied discursive spheres. This linguistic policy, analyzed and disseminated with the advent of sociolinguistic studies on language and gender in the years 1970-1980, has as its embryonic claim the reflection made in The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, in 1949, that women did not use the pronoun “we” to designate themselves. However, it is understandable that feminist ideologies have always been reflected and refracted by the language of women, to the point that this linguistic attitude precedes their naming. Contemplating this problem, this thesis, based on the dialogic discourse analysis and a dialogical view of feminism, has as its general objective to investigate the Brazilian linguistic-discursive feminization in the discourses of working women in A Classe Operária newspaper (1925-1930), aiming to understand it as a feminist linguistic policy. As specific objectives, it seeks to: a) analyze the discourses of working women present in A Classe Operária in the Old Republic Newspaper, ascertaining characteristics that point to a feminist linguistic policy; b) verify, in the statements of the working women in the referred newspaper, under a dialogical bias, the discursive stylization that we call linguistic-discursive feminization, highlighting its characteristics in the lexical, grammatical and discursive planes, and c) examine in the analyzed speeches traces of the presence of linguistic consciousness, in terms of dialogic discourse analysis, of class consciousness, in terms of Karl Marx, and of gender consciousness, in terms of dialogic feminism, observing how this affects the stylistics of their utterances. We followed the methodology proposed by Valentin Vološinov in Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (1973[1929]), which was adapted to our object of analysis. Thus, primarily, the context of the women who wrote for A Classe Operária newspaper between the years 1925 and 1930 is recovered, for the description and interpretation of the relations between the base (mode of production/relations of production and social classes) and the language practices in the discursive sphere of the Brazilian working-class press in the Old Republic. Afterward, is reflected on the statements of working women in that newspaper, defining their discursive genre and observing how the working women's class ideology organized the stylistics of their speech. Finally, it was investigated the linguistic forms in these utterances, analyzing the existence of the linguistic-discursive feminization and highlighting its characteristics in the lexical, grammatical, and discursive planes. Based on the research as a whole, we defend the thesis that the linguistic-discursive feminization in the discourses of working women in A Classe Operária newspaper (1925-1930) manifests itself as a linguistic policy, since this responsive act, perceived in the set of her statements, on the one hand, reflect a recurrent stylistic practice inscribed in the language and, on the other hand, she refracts the defense of women's rights in the world of work.