Efeitos de sentido das identidades amazônicas nos portais de notícias e entretenimento do Amazonas

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the meaning effects of Amazonian identities evidenced in some news and entertainment websites in Amazon State. As specific objectives, we will walk the path of Amazon “discovery” history, the constitution of Amazon, we will walk on the main concepts of identity and subject, as well as pointing out interpretation possibilities on meaning effects of such materials that generate humor, stereotyped images, derogatory arguments which result in the generation of identifications for the Amazonians, the ones who live in the Amazon region, meanings which permeate the imaginary about that region by both those who live in it and others who live outside. To achieve these proposed objectives, we use the theory of Materialist Discourse Analysis. Initially, we will characterize the emergence of Discourse Analysis with its assumptions, commenting on the concepts of discourse, social formation, ideology, ideological formations, discursive formations, subject and subject positions, as well as interdiscourse, conditions of production, among other concepts which underlie such subject. Discursive practices constitute subjectivity positions, in which the individual is captured to constitute himself as a subject. Thus, subjects and meanings are jointly constituted in the discursive processes. Authors such as Pêcheux (1969, 1975, 1995 [1975], 2012 [1983]), Althusser (1974 [1970]), Courtine (2014), Orlandi (2005 and 2006), among others, who support the theoretical part of the analysis, are in the corpus of the present work. Here there are also theories of discourse and identity of the works of Ciampa (1984), Hall (2006 [1992]), Bauman (2005), Tse-Tung (1999 [1937]), Gondim (2007), among other authors, who contributed for the construction of the concept of identity in this work. The research has a bibliographic and qualitative frame and the analysis procedures, which constitute our methodology, are related to the description and the interpretation guided by the works of Pêcheux, taking into account the structure and the discursive event. The selection of the corpus takes place through the collection of materials from the websites related to the theme, from clippings of texts and videos published on the websites, which represent the imaginary about Amazon. As for the results achieved so far, the effects of identities which materialize in the aforementioned materials reproduce a position of a subject devalued in the face of national identity, a position of a subject that is led to be demoralized and silenced due to its historical constitution, in contradiction to a position that values the region for its customs and products of the land.