Maracatu e discurso: sentidos e identidade no maracatu de baque solto à luz da Teoria Social do Discurso de Fairclough

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the Maracatu Loa genre from the perspective of Fairclough's Social Discourse Theory (2016) and scholars who advocate this theory in critical discourse analysis (Lira, Alves (2018); Gonçalves-Segundo, 2018). We analyze how the Loa can aid in the development of discursive skills to promote the development of a place of speech in society. Specifically, this study sought to investigate how oral communication, in conjunction with the oral tradition of maracatu loa, can foster the conception of language as action; to identify the extent to which we can conceive of the production of loas as a social practice for promoting social change; and to analyze how the poetry of maracatu loas can promote discursive interactions and the process of weaving identity and sociocultural resistance of those who produce them. As a methodological option, we employed a qualitative/interpretative approach to data analysis (Bardin, 2011). We analyzed two prototype texts of the loas genre, analyzing them according to the dimensions of Fairclough's critical analysis: textual, discursive practice, and social practice. The results showed that loas are counter-hegemonic discourses that resignify meanings, resist socio historical invisibility, and their social practice contributes to social transformation by articulating memory, critique, and collective identity, and by tensioning power relations and fostering the weaving of identities