DIALOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CHILDREN’S BOOKLET “CORONAVÍRUS – VAMOS NOS PROTEGER”

TENSIONS BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC-PREVENTIVE AND POLITICAL GOVERNMENTAL DISCOURSES

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Keywords:

Análise Dialógica do Discurso, Relações dialógicas, Valoração, Cartilha, Pandemia

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how different discourses are valuatively intertwined in the constitution of the “Cartilha para crianças: Coronavírus – vamos nos proteger” of the Ministry of Health, based on tense dialogical relationships between the discursive thematization of preventive guidelines for coping with the Covid-19 pandemic and other political government discourses. Dialogical studies of language, in the light of Bakhtin Circle´s writings and contemporary research in Dialogical Discourse Analysis (DDA), have guided the discussion. The results show that, in its socio-historical, cultural, ideological and verbal-visual dimensions, the semantic-axiological confluence between what has already been said and what is to come in the Cartilha engenders political-governmental discourse legitimated by hybrid refractions of the public-scientific-everyday ideological spheres, in a valued whole from which citizens' accessibility discourses emerge into guidance and into medical care by the SUS/government; euphemization of the consequences of the disease; denial of its seriousness; denial of the permanence of its pandemic status; family and governmental protection for children and for the elderly, among others.

Author Biographies

  • Ângela Francine Fuza, Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT)

    Doutora em Linguística Aplicada pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp). Professora Adjunta da Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT). Docente permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras (PPGLetras/UFT) e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística e Literatura (PPGLLIT/UFNT). Bolsista de produtividade do CNPq.

  • Adriana Delmira Mendes Polato, Universidade Estadual do Paraná (UNESPAR)

    Doutora em Estudos da Linguagem pela Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM). Professora Adjunta de Língua Portuguesa e Prática do Ensino de Língua Portuguesa do Departamento de Letras Português/Inglês da Universidade Estadual do Paraná (UNESPAR/Campus Campo Mourão). Docente permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação Sociedade e Desenvolvimento. Líder do Grupo de pesquisa PRADIS (UNESPAR, CNPq). 

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Published

2023-12-10

Issue

Vol. 23 (2023)

Section

Research Articles