Discursos do e sobre o futebol brasileiro : o poder midiático na regulação das identidades
Resumo
Studies affirm that soccer is one of the greatest symbols of Brazilian national
identity. That s why it was and it is taken as an object in several studies inscribed at Human
Sciences. Yet soccer has not been adequately studied by linguists. Taking that conjecture into
consideration, besides trying to promote the approximation between soccer and Linguistics
studies, the main goal of this research is appraising how the soccer chronicle discourse exerts
a regulating power over the discursive construction of Brazilian soccer identity and Brazilian
national identity during 1994 and 1998 World Cups. In order to do so, we discursively
analyze, based upon the theoretical-methodological apparatus of French-school Discourse
Analysis, notoriously represented by Michel Pêcheux and Michel Foucault, one archive of
soccer chronicles published in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo in the time of the Cups
mentioned above. In order to compose the theoretical foundation that supports this research,
we applied some French DA main categories such as, discursive formation, discursive
process and discursive memory , the concepts of power, knowledge, subjectivity, archive
and occurrence all of them discussed by Foucault (1986, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000) ,
the theoretical reflections about the concept of identity produced inside Sociology and
Anthropology by Boaventura de Sousa-Santos (2001), Suely Rolnik (2000) and Stuart Hall
(2001), and also the notion-concept of thematic stretch, proposed by Jacques Guilhaumou and
Denise Maldidier (1994). From the reading sustained by the concept of thematic stretch, we
verify, in the chronicles, how the nominal groups Brasil (Brazil), seleção brasileira
(Brazilian national squad), futebol brasileiro (Brazilian soccer) were fulfilled in a way to
build up, in and by Folha soccer chronicle discourse, one national identity for Brazilian
soccer and for Brazil.