Foi ela quem pediu por isso: análise dos discursos midiáticos sobre a construção da identidade feminina em situações de violência

Abstract

This monograph aims to identify the feminine identities that are constructed in media discourses in situations of female violence. The study of identity today is quite comprehensive, and so this research was limited to analyzing feminine identities within what the media exposes (especially news sites). Thus, the discourses analyzed were taken specifically from this media, making cuts from online news sites disseminated on the internet daily, together with discourses of social actors who receive such news, embodying the analysis. In this line, this research brings the analysis of three categories: the meaning of words with the categorization of the lexicon that makes up the news discourses and the receptive social actors; the meanings of the discourses that discuss the attribution of blame to women in violent actions; and; the identification of the feminine identities attributed to women (if these have traces of a historicity of a power relationship between men and women). The method of analysis is established in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) itself, which describes, categorizes and discusses the results, so that scientific knowledge is constituted by theories and, in the present study, there are discussions about discourse, identity, power relations, CDA and its importance for social change. The theorists who contributed to this study were Fairclough (1992/2001), Fairclough; Wodak et al, Van Dijk (2005), Foucault (1979), Giddens (1991), Hofstede (1991), Thompson (1995), Rago (1995/1996), Pedro (1997), Castells (1999/2006), Biderman (2001), Hall (2006/2008), Paulino & Rodrigues (2013), Kowalski (2009) and Batista Jr et al. (2018). The analytical results indicate that feminine identities are transformed and that the pejorative lexicon and the meanings of the discourses contribute to this result.