A resistencia das palavras : um estudo do discurso politico britanico sobre a India (1942-1947)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1998

RESUMO

The object of study of this dissertation is the British political discourse about India at the moment in which the preparations for handing over independence to India were being carried out. Our main interest was to understand the meaning effects produced by a discourse about the "transfer of power" as it constitutes forms of representing the self (colonizer, governar), the other (colonized, governed) and the relationship between them within a colonial frame. But this colonial frame is, nevertheless, signified by a discourse that could be termed a "transition" discourse because it anticipates a new political setting which should be able to dislocate stabilized meanings in a relationship of colonization. Our theoretical and methodological framework is a perspective of discourse analysis which postulates that language is socio-historically Constituted and structured by ideological formations and that the meanings of a discourse are constituted in other discourses, that is, in its interdiscourse. The specificity of our analysis, an analysis which is both semantic and enunciative, lies in that the enunciative event is taken as the place of observation of the meanings of the discourse with a view to understanding how language functions from a historical perspective. Thus, the analyst seeks to aprehend the relationships between this discourse and its constitutive alterity in the sense that this alterity has various ways of signifying in a given discourse. Through our analysis we concluded that the discursive configuration which governs the British political discourse about the transfer of power in India is characterized by the fact that it puts together contradictory meanings which come from different regions of the interdiscourse in the shape of a game of oppositions: apparently there is a rupture with meanings which come from a colonialist discourse through "new" forms of representation of the self and the other (for example, by means of linguistic constructions which speak of equality, friendship and cooperation in the relationship between British and Indians). However, these constructions are crossed by meanings which invoke the memory of colonization and which can only be formulated in a colonialist discourse. In the discourse we analysed, the discursive configuration organises the subject positions and the way of functioning of this discourse so as to make them signify from two opposing positions: the discursive "place" of the empire and the "place" which recognises the sphere of political representation

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colonização analise do discurso semantica

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