Banca de DEFESA: JAMILE MARIA DE FATIMA DA SILVA

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STUDENT : JAMILE MARIA DE FATIMA DA SILVA
DATE: 25/08/2021
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Remotamente, via google meet
TITLE:

MENTAL MODELS AND THE DISCOURSE CONSTRUCTION OF SEXISM IN SPACES VIRTUALS OF INTERACTION: A SOCIOCOGNITIVE APPROACH

KEY WORDS:

Mental Models; Sociocognition; Speech; Feminism; Facebook.

PAGES: 139
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUMMARY:

The theory of “mental models”, proposed by van Dijk (2014; 2017), is a fundamental approach for critical discourse analysis, it is forged based on principles that we take as the highest value and of utmost importance for understanding the world, it reveals us concepts built on the basis of representations of reality. At this work, we analyze Mental Models as a result of socio-cognitive processes, which serve to maintain power hierarchies. We understand, therefore, that to focus on them is to promote the deconstruction of stereotypes and, thus, recover the identity of marginalized groups. As an investigative locus, we insert ourselves in virtual spheres of interaction because we understand that currently, the internet figures as a web in which new relationships are woven every day that connect society in a network; the themes arising from these links interfere in the construction of human thought and, consequently, in the attitudes of its users. Thus, our proposal is to clarify hidden meanings through derogatory categorizations attributed to women militants of the feminist cause, present in Facebook comments, focusing on the linguistic-discursive analysis of posts that reflect symbolic and sexist violence in these spaces. We aim, with this, to obtain the cognitive-discursive relationship of the representations erected via mental models, which perpetrate sexist dominance and solidify misogynistic realities. For this, we anchored in multidisciplinary assumptions grounded, above all, in the Critical Discourse Analysis, specifically, through the theories developed by van Dijk (1998; 2014; 2015a; 2015b; 2015c; 2017), which, through the interface of sociocognition, reveal to us the body of meanings that make up mental representations. To understand the social constitution of gender, we turn to Beauvoir (2016) and Butler (2003;2019); with regard to the technological/ideological influences of digital media, we rely, essentially, on Recuero (2015) and Zuboff (2019); as for the theoretical-analytic discussions, we seek support in Ciulla (2014); Cavalcante (2011); Falcone (2008). Methodologically, we entered the textual domains of the Facebook fanpage Quebrando o Tabu, as this is a page that covers topics of relevance to society, especially about gender violence, and whose high number of followers ensure a rich source of Mental Models. By highlighting these users' ways of referring, our aim is to show how certain referents are re-signified in the construction of interaction/signification networks, according to social representations, through categorizations. Thus, it is worth emphasizing that our analysis focuses on the lexical and even multisemiotic scope of these categorizations. The results reveal that Mental Models are personal and evaluated, therefore, influenceable. They induce categorizations that, in turn, operate on the socio-cognitive understanding of the communicative event in which the interactants are inserted. Thus, Mental Models, supported by the context, inflict symbolic traits on the discursive production inherent to the knowledge and beliefs shared between groups. It is, therefore, through these elaborations that representations are born and solidified in the social environment, consolidating models that legitimize an ideologically oriented “reality”.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1667608 - EVANDRA GRIGOLETTO
Interno - 028.481.444-08 - IRAN FERREIRA DE MELO - USP
Externa à Instituição - THAIS LUDMILA DA SILVA RANIERI