The evaluative horizon in utterances of the online comment genre: a dialogic listening

Authors

  • Maria de Lourdes Rossi Remenche Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná/Campus Curitiba
  • Nívea Rohling Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná/Campus Curitiba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1984-8412.2016v13n3p1460

Abstract

In this article we present an analysis of utterances of the online comment genre produced/generated from a specific event: the strike that took place in 2015 headed by teachers from the public school system of the state of Paraná. We aimed at observing how the axiological/evaluative horizon is materialized in online comments, when the identity of a teaching professional is thematized. With that, the focus of this study was the appreciative horizon of utterances that contribute to social modes of creating discourse about the subject-teacher in moments of political and ideological crisis – such as strikes. The analysis was theoretical and methodological, anchored in the writings of Bakhtin’s Circle (BAKHTIN, 2003[1979]; 2015[1975]; VOLOCHÍNOV, 2013[1930]). The results prove that, in some utterances, the discourse about the teacher puts him/her in an abstract category in which the subject is disembodied in the discourse, thus being considered a “puppet” of material and social relationships. In others, elements are searched in the teacher’s ethical act – in his/her relationship with the other or others – students, parents, and school community ready to place judgment on the teacher as someone who is uncompromised with the peers. However, there are also dissonant voices that destabilize the derogatory discourses that are re-uttered.

Author Biographies

Maria de Lourdes Rossi Remenche, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná/Campus Curitiba

Professora Adjunta do Departamento Acadêmico de Linguagem e Comunicação, da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná/Campus Curitiba. Doutora em Linguística pela Universidade de São Paulo/USP.

Nívea Rohling, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná/Campus Curitiba

Doutora em Linguística pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Docente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos de Linguagens do Departamento Acadêmico de Linguagem e Comunicação, da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná/Campus Curitiba.

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Published

2016-10-05

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 3 (2016)

Section

Dossier

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