"Você por acaso sabe ler?": uma análise discursiva de injúrias relativas à leitura
Abstract
This Masters dissertation here presented, in line with the researches accomplished by the group
LIRE, has as its main objective to analyze speeches about reading, more specifically, to
approach the ways of expression of the ‘shame’ and ‘pride’ related to this practice, in the
condition of being or not a reader, in statements that came from news of the Brazilian media as
well as in personal Brazilian blogs, in which the reading is summoned as a way to stablish
hierarchies between the subjects, under the way of insult, harassment and cultural and social
injury (SENNAT; COBB, 1972). Over this Masters research, we have raised and analyzed
statements collected along digital news texts and, also, personal Brazilian blogs that
approached, even if it was briefly and accessorily, the reading, mentioned as a way at the same
time to humiliate and downgrade ones and praise others. It was collected a total of ten
statements, in which the use of the reading was brought up; from these, we analyzed a total of
nine, which were the ones that brought statements with the intuition of the injury, the
unworthiness. We believe that the low number of analyze is given for two main reasons: i) the
difficulty of catching the statements in which the reading is taken as an aspect of intellectual
unworthiness; and ii) the fact that this kind of statement brings up a shame to the interlocutor,
preventing him of exposure. This peculiar use of the reading is part of the arguments related to
the constitutive cultural gesture of our collective identity as affirms DaMatta (1990), the one
from “Do you know who you are talking to?”. Because it is a practice which full exercise is
restrict to just a few, it maintains along us as a way of distinction and, for this reason, it is
mobilized as a “triumph” to reestablish and remind sociocultural hierarchies to that who should
be “put in their correct place”. We present in this dissertation some reflection about the
discursive work of the injuries related to the reading. For this analysis, we were supported by
the reflections of Brazilian researchers about the reading in Brazil, such as Abreu (2001a,
2001b, 2005, 2006a, 2006b), Britto (2015), Barzotto e Britto (1998) and other member of the
study group LIRE (CNPQ/UFSCar), with special attention to the works related to the emotions
and the reading from Curcino (2022, 2024a) and Silva e Curcino (2022), questiong for an
articulation to the considerations about the “social injury” and the dequalification of the
subjects, according to the reflections of Sennet e Cobb (1972) and DaMatta (1990).
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