The Discourse of Violence: Between a Correria and a Good Brazilian Citizen

Abstract

Based on studies in the field of discourse analysis by authors such as Michel Pêcheux (2014), Eni Orlandi (1999) Helena Brandão (2004) and Dominique Maingueneau (2006, 2010), we analyze how the discourse of violence is strongly present in daily discursive (re) productions. Since this often assumes a subtle character, it is necessary to pay greater attention to this aspect of the discourse of violence. Therefore, we reveal the attempts of groups and certain social classes to deny these various manifestations of violence through the genders that traverse society. Accordingly, the justification for our research is precisely the problem of the constitutive contradiction of our subject and, as a consequence, the production of certain effects of meaning