Banca de DEFESA: MARILDO DE OLIVEIRA LOPES

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STUDENT : MARILDO DE OLIVEIRA LOPES
DATE: 13/07/2023
TIME: 14:00
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TITLE:

Between the word, the cross and the sword: parliamentary discursive homotransphobia in a public hearing in the Chamber of Deputies

KEY WORDS:

Discursive parliamentarian homotransphobia; religious political activism; Critical Discourse Studies; discursive microstructure; discursive macrostructure.

PAGES: 388
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Lingüística
SUMMARY:

Sexual and gender dissidences, which have always been part of concrete life, are manifestations of life as legitimate as cisheterosexuality. Nevertheless, the LGBTQIA+ community, for a long time, has been symbolically and physically violated, due to sociohistorical worldviews that built the abomination, pathologization and exclusion of human beings that subverted cisheterosexism, a system that created the cisheterosexist hierarchy, anchor of homotransphobia, hostility that are especially (re)produced, in/by discourse – which is conceived, in this study, as a social practice, use of language to construct meanings and concrete action in the world (VAN DIJK, 2018). From this perspective, the general objective of this study is to investigate the construction of discursive parliamentarian homotransphobia in the Family Statute Public Hearing on June 25, 2015. And as specific objectives: (1) Point out and discuss discursive themes related to discursive parliamentarian homotransphobia, addressed in the investigated public hearing; (2) Analyze the discursive strategies that (re)produces homotransphobia in the studied parliamentary meeting; (3) Identify the homotransphobic macro-propositions (global meanings) woven in the public audience on screen; (4) Specify the homotransphobic discourse macroacts (global acts) concretely performed in the discursive event under analysis; (5) Categorize other types of homotransphobia committed in the audience in question, establishing their dialogic resonances with discursive parliamentarian homotransphobia; and (6) Understand the dialogical relations of the analyzed homotransphobic discourses, perceiving, especially, the underlying ideologies, sociocognitively shared by the reactionary congressmen who participated in the discursive event. This is qualitative research of interpretive analysis, anchored mainly in the socio-cognitive approach of Critical Discourse Studies (CDA), developed by Teun van Dijk. The data reveal that the public hearing analyzed addresses seven main discursive themes: (i) Abjection of sexual and gender dissent, (ii) concepts of homotransphobia, freedom of expression and the secular state; (iii) Same-sex families; (iv) LGBTQIA+ movements; (v) gender ideology; (vi) judicial activism favorable to LGBTQIA+ political agendas; and (vii) gay cure. From these themes, parliamentary discursive homotransphobia is woven, first, at the local discursive level (micro level of linguistic materiality) through countless discursive strategies, strategically mobilized, that harass sexual and gender minorities, their struggles and their rights. At the global discursive level (macro level), the reactionary participants of the studied event: (i) (re)produce prejudiced and discriminatory macro-propositions, (ii) perform hostile macroacts of speech, and (iii) commit some subtypes of parliamentary discursive homotransphobia such as sociocognitive, general, specific, religious, pastoral, cordial. discursively attack sexual and gender dissidences, the LGBTQIA+ movement, homoaffective families, judicial activism that favors LGBTQIA+ rights, violate the concepts of homotransphobia, secular state and freedom of expression, (re)produce the fallacy of gender ideology in Brazilian schools and appeal for the nefarious gay cure. I note that the micro and macro discursive levels build a discursive superstructure, which is part of a parliamentary discursive macromovement that integrates political-religious activism, especially the Evangelical Parliamentary Front and its allies, to combat LGBTQIA+ political agendas. The parliamentary discursive homotransphobia that occurred in the studied event maintains intrinsic dialogical relations with fundamentalist religious ideologies of a Judeo-Christian matrix, inconsistent with the secularity of the Brazilian State. Homotransphobic discourses are actions that disrespect human rights, incite violence, configuring discursive (re)production of abuse of power. They are illegitimate and must be fought so that social change can happen.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - 1372213 - LIVIA MARCIA TIBA RADIS BAPTISTA
Interna - 2142558 - DANIELE DE OLIVEIRA
Interna - 3062795 - ADRIANA SANTOS BATISTA
Externa à Instituição - MÁRCIA HELENA DE MELO PEREIRA - UESB
Externo à Instituição - EVERALDO DOS SANTOS MENDES - UFS