A desconstrução do machismo pela linguagem: ordens de indexicalidade e outscalings motivados pelo movimento feminista no Facebook

Abstract

In the current social panorama of later modernity, we perceive the growth in the index of reflections and discussions on gender inequality, with the help of popularization of the Internet use and increase of active users in Web 2.0 and its social networks. With this, the groups of the feminist movement (s) have more spaces to question the oppressions experienced by women in society and, from this, to deconstruct discourses that regulate and injure women's bodies and behaviors. With this, the feminist struggle gains greater visibility and possibility of reaching the different social strata. Thus, it is urgently presented to understand the discursive conflicts that emerge in these spaces, conceiving that language is constitutive of being and therefore creative, reaffirming and modifying realities of practical / virtual life (MOITA LOPES, 2006). We intend, with this study, to analyze Discourses that seek to control female behavior, creating truths, meaning effects and consequences in social practices, from the comments of posts in feminist pages of the social network Facebook. For this, we based us on the precepts of Transgressive Applied Linguistics (PENNYCOOK, 2006), which has a research agenda with ethical commitment in dealing with social life, aiming its eyes to the individuals that are on the margins and transgressing conventional disciplinary boundaries, in order to give voice to research subjects and to mean the socio- cultural processes that cross their lives. For data analysis, we based on the methodological assumptions of digital ethnography (HINE, 2000) and use the theories of sociolinguistic scales, indexicality orders and outscalings proposed by Blommaert (2010a) in order to understand the course of d/Discourses (GEE,1999) analyzed in TimeSpace. The research presented that, in the selected debates, discourses such as compulsory maternity, social pressure for the performance of woman's femininity and that relate respect and feminine character according to the clothes used or number of partners they have had in their lives. In addition, they mobilized indexical orders to standardize women's behavior so that women are socially accepted and blame the woman for cases of sexual crimes, violence and harassment. Finally, this research has shown us that feminist women problematize the circulating Discourses in the macro space and question these truths in the micro space, using the strategy of the use the autobiographical narratives in order to create outscalings and to modify the Discourses that normalize the feminine behaviors in the society.