Discurso, cognição e sociedade: texto e contexto na representação do feminino por Chico Buarque de Hollanda

Abstract

This thesis is situated in the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) field, presenting a socio-cognitive approach and it has as its main objective to contribute to the discourse linguistic studies about the feminism issue in Brazil by means of specific objectives aimed at: 1. verifying the cultural positive and negative values present in feminism verbal representation; 2.examining the ideological values present in the feminism representations and its verbal production forms; 3. dealing with the interrelations between text and context in the meaning construction for the representations of feminism in musical chronicles composed by Chico Buarque de Holanda; 4. presenting the social roles and its social functions brought about by Chico Buarque from different social groups viewpoints. The theme herein presented is justified by the fact that, despite the feminists movements, there is still a lot to be investigated and to be done about prejudice against women, including in Brazil. The analysis carried out followed a technical-analytical procedure having as analytical categories Society,Cognition and Discourse. Moreover such analysis also has theoretical fundamental issues based upon van Dijk (2012) studies. Therefore, this research took into account the following methodological procedures: 1. Analytical theoretical procedure: theoretical review upon the main concepts focused in this thesis, such as: Discourse; Society; Cognition; Context(s); Genre; Identity; Chronicle as an opinion-based genre. 2. Selection of analysis material: eighty-six (86) musical chronicles written by Chico Buarque de Holanda were selected, among which sixty (60) were produced during the political oppressive military government period in Brazil. Based upon the sixty chronicles, some sample material was selected,taken from the themes which represent the feminism element through poetic language. From this selection onwards, the songs-musical chronicles- presented as samples of cultural and ideological values were chosen in order to represent the feminism elements in different social groups. The results show that there are positive and negative values which evaluate the feminism element as a genre in a society and that such values are linked to a society which is based upon a society whose model is the masculine element, therefore generating prejudice