Vítimas e perpetradores: Discurso reportado e identidade em narrativas de discriminação racial
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Mércia S. Flannery
Abstract
Narratives of racial discrimination can be organized through the utterance of an insult - overt discrimination - or through the interpretation that an action was motivated by prejudice - covert discrimination. One of the characteristics of these two types of narratives is the description and demonstration of the voices of those characters playing the roles of victim and perpetrator of discrimination. This article examines the role of reported speech to the construction of specific positions within four oral narratives, collected in Portuguese, in Northeast Brazil. Considering that every discourse is dialogic and intertextual, this study analyzes the forms of transmission of another’s voices, how these enable the narrators to construct positions defined in the story-world and to transmit ideas about the authorprotagonist and about the other. Through a linguistic analysis of narratives describing a social problem this article contributes to fill in the gap in the studies on language and race/racism.
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Dissertation Notices
- A macro- and microsociolinguistic study of language attitudes and language contact: Mercosur and the teaching of Spanish in Brazil
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Articles in the same Issue
- Front Matter
- Contents
- From the Editor’s Desk
- Research Articles
- El abundante agua fría: Hermaphroditic Spanish Nouns
- Vítimas e perpetradores: Discurso reportado e identidade em narrativas de discriminação racial
- Integración conceptual (blending) en el proceso de gramaticalización de construcciones nominales cuantificativas en español
- A Tale of Two Borders: 19th Century Language Contact in Southern California and Northern Uruguay
- Book Reviews
- Segmental and Prosodic Issues in Romance Phonology
- State of the Discipline. Topic: Corpus Linguistics
- New Directions in Spanish and Portuguese Corpus Linguistics
- Viewpoints. Topic: The Place of Dialectology in Modern Linguistics
- Some Thoughts on Dialectology and Spanish Historical Linguistics
- Viewpoint from Sociolinguistics and Contact Linguistics: On the Role of Dialectology in Modern Linguistics
- Homeless in Post-Modern Linguistics? (Re/Dis)placing Hispanic Dialectology
- Affirming Differences, Valuing Variation and Dismissing Dialects in Modern Linguistics
- Dissertation Notices
- A macro- and microsociolinguistic study of language attitudes and language contact: Mercosur and the teaching of Spanish in Brazil
- The acquisition of probabilistic patterns in Spanish phonology by adult second language learners: The case of diphthongization
- The role of lexical frequency and phonetic context in the weakening of syllablefinal lexical /s/ in the Spanish of Barranquilla, Colombia
- Register and style variation in speakers of Spanish as a heritage and as a second language
