Discursive Practices of a Riverside Community in the Amazônia: a Critical Discourse Analysis
Discourse; Social Relations; Representations; Identities.
Discourses represent and build social relations (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001) and can be strategically used as instruments in power relations in social and discursive practices that generate social changes both in global and local contexts. From this theoretical perspective, the general objective of the research will be to interpret the constitution of social and identity relations in the discursive practices of riverside residents of a community on the Baixo Rio Branco located in the Amazônia Ocidental. To reach this objective we proposed the triangulation of theories based on the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) proposed by Fairclough (2003) and Chouliaraki and Fairclough (1999), on the Theory of Social Representation proposed by Moscovici (2015) and discussed in Brazil by Guareschi and Jovchelovitch (2013). Finally, van Leeuwen's Theory of Representation of Social Actors (1997; 2008), to understand, through discursive practices, the social relations between actors inserted in the social practices of riverside communities. Regarding the methodology, we started from an interpretive approach to carry out a qualitative research. We used Social Network Analysis (SNA) to generate data as a method. The UCINET 6 for Windows software - version 6.665 was used as a research tool to mine the data generated from a form that will enable the generation of sociodemographic data and the generation of a socio-relational map prepared by the integrated platform for visualization, Netdraw. Based on the map, we will identify which are the most central social actors who will be interviewed for the analysis of the most relevant discourse network for the research.