Representation in dispute: a critical discourse analysis of the LGBTQI+ Free Parade of Brasília
LGBTQI+ Free Parade of Brasília. Critical discourse stuides. Legitimation. Evaluation.
This dissertation presents research results that aimed to identify the justifications expressed in the discourse for the realization of the LGBTQI+ Free Parade of Brasília and to explore its causal relationships with other social aspects. Critical discourse studies provided the main theoretical assumptions for the research, with a strong contribution from LGBTQIAP+ and queer studies. The corpora are composed of verbal texts resulting from the generation of data in two semi-structured individual interviews with the organizers of the LGBTQI+ Free Parade of Brasília and written verbal texts collected from virtual supports: seven texts collected from the official page of the LGBTQI+ Free Parade of Brasília on Facebook, three texts collected from Metrópoles and a text collected from Correio Braziliense. In addition to the documentary collection of verbal texts written in virtual supports from Facebook, Metrópoles and Correio Braziliense, two individual interviews were carried out with organizers of the Parada. The interviews were developed from a guide topic, using photo elicitation as a methodological instrument, recorded in audio and video by Microsoft Teams, and transcribed in Elan 6.2. The textual analysis was carried out structurally when a category was applied to a set of data, and sequencially when different categories were applied, according to the demand of the data itself. The discursive categories that guided the textual analysis were evaluation, intertextuality, LEGITIMATION, metaphor, MODALITY, semantic relations in/between clauses, and temporal relation marking. The results indicate that the organization of the LGBTQI+ Free Parade of Brasília mobilizes socio-discursive resources to negatively evaluate Brasília Pride and thus legitimizes itself as a democratic organization. However, they also point out that the idealization of the LGBTQI+ Free Parade of Brasília arises from an economic and partisan dispute between the members of the organizations of the two parades.