Discourse, Biopolitics and Means of Elderly Subjectivity During The Pandemic

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2021.56909

Keywords:

Discourse, Elderly subjectivities, Pandemic, Biopolitics.

Abstract

In this article, we discuss the elaboration of elderly subjectivities as a target of biopolitics in the COVID-19 discourse. The analytical path started from Foucault’s theories about discourse and the subject articulating theoretical and methodological assumptions in the fields of language studies and other areas of social sciences. Interrogating the linguistic mechanisms, the games of memory and the felt effects that single out gestures of interpretation of the pandemic that put the elderly subjectivation modes in a referential position, we aim to show different regimes of truth and their relations of knowledge and power materialized in the statements of the pandemic discursive event.

Author Biographies

Marluce Pereira Silva, Universidade Federal da Paraíba/UFPB

É professora da Universidade Federal da Paraíba/UFPB junto ao Departamento de Jornalismo. Possui Doutorado e Mestrado em Letras e Linguística pela Universidade Paulista de São Pau­lo UNESP/ Araraquara. Atua como professora colaboradora no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Linguagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte/PPGEL/UFRN, com orientações e pesquisas nos eixos temáticos: Discurso e Mídia, Formação de professores, Diversidade cultural no contexto escolar e em outros contextos institucionalizados. Professora permanente do Programa do Mestrado Profissional em Letras (PROFLETRAS).

Edgley Freire Tavares, Universidade Estadual do Rio grande do Norte/UERN

É doutor em Estudos da Linguagem pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Docen­te no Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Central. Membro do GEDUERN - Grupo de Estudos do Discurso da Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte. Desenvolve estudos em torno de práticas discursivas contemporâneas estabelecendo uma arqueologia e uma genealogia da sociedade brasileira em seu funcionamento político e democrático.

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Published

2021-06-27

How to Cite

Silva, M. P., & Tavares, E. F. (2021). Discourse, Biopolitics and Means of Elderly Subjectivity During The Pandemic. MATRAGA - Journal Published by the Graduate Program in Letters at Rio De Janeiro State University (UERJ), 28(53), 344–361. https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2021.56909

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Vol. 28 No. 53 (2021): Language in times of uncertainty: pandemic, prejudice and politics

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Linguistic Papers

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