Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ELITON PAULINO RODRIGUES DA SILVA

THE FAKE NEWS DISCOURSE ABOUT EDUCATION

fake news; discourse analysis; education; fact-checking; truth.

This present work aims to analyze discourse sequences of fake news discourses about education, during election period in 2018, in Brazil, seeking to understand the functioning of discourses about education in the period, therefore problematizing the effects of meaning from different discursive formations, seeking to observe conservation or changes in discourses about education in different discourse sequences.  Therefore, it will also be problematized the different meanings of fake news, considering the comprehension of the term in a common-sense perspective, but also its consequent amplifications of meaning to portrait linguistic materiality other than fake news. It will be used Materialist Discourse Analysis as theory and methodology to study the discourse sequences classified as fake news by fact-checking agencies, which will be taken in the present work as determining parameter for a given discursive sequence to be classified as fake news, and also as source of access to the fake news to be analyzed, given its evanescent trait. The theme of the discourse sequences is education, considering the conditions of production of discourse of Brazilian election period of 2018, as the year in question was the one in which most of the fake news built and shared were related to education. Furthermore, it turns to be necessary to analyze fake news in a context in which the Ideological State Apparatuses (Althusser’s concept) have its truth power contested.