http://hdl.handle.net/11422/101 Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:40:13 GMT 2026-07-23T08:40:13Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29761 Title: Literatura afro-brasileira nas práticas do letramento racial crítico: uma análise dialógica de sequências didáticas Author(s)/Inventor(s): Santos, Maxwell Souza dos Advisor: Amorim, Marcel Alvaro de Abstract: By understanding the educational space as a privileged site for critical racial literacy practices, and Afro-Brazilian literature as a possible instrument for carrying out this pedagogical act, this dissertation has as its main objective the analysis of didactic sequences. This research investigates the spaces available for addressing critical racial literacy in materials on Afro-Brazilian literature. Thus, it seeks to reflect on which discourses about literacies and race are (de)legitimized in didactic sequences found in the work Literatura Afro-Brasileira: Abordagens na sala de aula (Duarte, 2014), aimed at the high school level and developed from Afro-Brazilian literary texts. This research becomes relevant by acknowledging, based on Kilomba (2020), that one of the mechanisms for the perpetuation of racist practices is the concealment of knowledge — literary knowledge included — produced by Black people in Brazil. Thus, in a preliminary analysis, the book organized by Eduardo de Assis Duarte stands out as one of the most comprehensive materials, enjoying wide acceptance among teachers and being easily accessible, as it is available in all major bookstores in the country. Theoretically, this study weaves a broad discursive fabric, as it addresses the macrosocial and political perspectives on the events that have shaped discourses on race in Brazil, and examines how the school becomes a space for the legitimation of these ideologies. In addition, it proposes a theoretical review of the concept of racial literacy and an understanding of this practice through Afro-Brazilian literature. To this end, grounded in Applied Linguistics from an INdisciplinary perspective (Moita Lopes, 2006), I adopt the Afrocentric paradigm (Asante; Mazama, 2009) and a Bakhtinian research approach (Souza & Albuquerque, 2012; Souza & Carvalho, 2016). Furthermore, the Dialogic Discourse Analysis (DDA) framework (Brait, 2004; Sobral & Giacomelli, 2016; Bakhtin, [1953] 2016; Volochinov, [1929] 2017) serves as the analytical horizon. The analysis made it possible to observe how rich the material is in detail, with strong encouragement of critical racial literacy, enabling shifts in the student-reader and, to some extent, also contributing to teacher education by suggesting readings, practices, and analytical pathways. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29761 2026-02-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29748 Title: Ela tá me botando na justiça mais por raiva porque ela nem precisa: (des)construindo estereótipos de gênero na mediação judicial sob a ótica da fala em interação Author(s)/Inventor(s): Ferreira, Juliana Lopes Advisor: Gago, Paulo Cortes Abstract: This study investigates how gender categories are mobilized in judicial mediation interactions, drawing on the perspectives of Membership Categorization Analysis and Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis. It is an empirical study aimed at understanding, in a situated manner, the practices that construct and reinforce gender attributions in judicialized family conflicts. To this end, we structured the research around six mediation cases, using audiovisual and audio recordings transcribed according to Jefferson’s transcription conventions. Additionally, we conducted interviews with judicial mediators to capture their perceptions regarding the role of gender and its impact on family mediation sessions. Our analytical corpus includes mediations in which stereotypical categorizations such as the “vengeful and angry woman” and the “absent or provider father” are mobilized. These framings, often implicit, were made visible through lexical choices, question formats, and sequential organization of turns that reveal the mobilization of commonsense knowledge and an institutional orientation rooted in patriarchal models. The data suggest that mediators, even under the presumption of institutional neutrality, adopt practices that both contribute to the deconstruction of gender stereotypes—by redirecting the focus of mediation toward legal issues rather than moralizing evaluations of women—and reinforce traditional views of parenting, in which the mother is seen as the primary caregiver and the father plays a secondary role. Our analysis also shows that categorizations evoking gender stereotypes guide the course of mediation and can influence practical decisions such as custody and child support agreements, shaping the law through “lay” narratives. We conclude that mediation sessions, far from being neutral spaces, operate as arenas for the production and reproduction of social and legal norms. By highlighting language-in-use, this research contributes to discussions on gender equity and conflict mediation practices within the interdisciplinary legal-linguistic field.; Este trabajo investiga cómo se movilizan categorías de género en interacciones de mediación judicial, desde la perspectiva del Análisis de Categorías de Pertenencia y el Análisis de la Conversación Etnometodológico. Se trata de un estudio empírico que busca comprender, de manera situada, las prácticas que construyen y refuerzan atribuciones de género en conflictos familiares judicializados. Para ello, organizamos la investigación en torno a seis casos de mediación, con registros audiovisuales y de audio transcritos según la convención de Jefferson. Complementariamente, realizamos entrevistas con mediadores judiciales, con el fin de captar sus percepciones sobre el papel del género y su impacto en las sesiones de mediación familiar. Nuestro corpus analítico incluye mediaciones en las que estan movilizadas categorizaciones vinculadas al estereotipo de la mujer vengativa y colérica, así como del padre ausente o meramente proveedor. Estos encuadres, muchas veces implícitos, se evidencian a través de elecciones léxicas, formas de preguntas y secuencias conversacionales que revelan la movilización de saberes del sentido común y una orientación institucional basada en modelos patriarcales. Los datos indican que los mediadores, incluso bajo la presunción de neutralidad institucional, adoptan prácticas que contribuyen tanto a la deconstrucción de estereotipos de género —al reposicionar el foco de las mediaciones en las cuestiones jurídicas y no en juicios moralizantes sobre las mujeres— como al refuerzo de visiones tradicionales de la parentalidad, en las que la madre es la cuidadora principal y el padre desempeña un papel secundario. El análisis también muestra que las categorizaciones que movilizan estereotipos de género orientan el curso de la mediación y pueden influir en decisiones prácticas, como los acuerdos de custodia y manutención, construyendo el derecho a partir de narrativas “profanas”. Concluimos que las sesiones de mediación, lejos de ser espacios neutros, funcionan como arenas de producción y reproducción de normas sociales y jurídicas. Al evidenciar el lenguaje en uso, esta investigación contribuye al debate sobre la equidad de género y las prácticas de mediación de conflictos en el campo interdisciplinario lingüístico-jurídico. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29748 2025-08-28T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29736 Title: Cabrestos invisíveis: análise de narrativa de uma desigrejada Author(s)/Inventor(s): Santos, Jamilly Silva dos Advisor: Santos, William Soares dos Abstract: This study analyzes the effects of Christian-Evangelical religious discourses on the construction of female identities in contemporary Brazil, a context marked by the strengthening of conservative perspectives articulated with neoliberal logics. Situated within the field of Indisciplinary Applied Linguistics (Moita Lopes, 2006; Fabrício, 2006) and guided by a performative conception of language (Moita Lopes, 2006; 2009), the research aims to analyze how a "de-churched" woman narrates her process of disassociation from the norms of holiness and institutional belonging to which she was linked, seeking to identify tensions, continuities, and ruptures with statements produced in the religious environment. "De-churched" refers to a woman who breaks with the institution of the church—its practices, sociabilities, and dogmas—without necessarily abandoning her faith. The data were generated through semi-structured interviews, in which the narrative was co-constructed as an interactional event (Bastos & Santos, 2013). The analysis is based on a dialogue between Foucauldian-based Discourse Analysis (Foucault, 1970; 1976), Narrative Analysis (Labov, 1967; 1972; Bruner, 1997; Mishler, 1991; 2002; Bastos & Biar, 2015; Santos, 2022), and gender studies based on Butler (2015; 2018), aligning with a qualitative-interpretivist perspective (Denzin & Lincoln, 2006). The final considerations show that de-churching is narrated as a process of identity reinscription marked by ambivalences: while producing shifts and resistance to regimes of moral control, it maintains discursive and affective marks of religious experience. The formulation "never comes out whole" exposes the persistence of these traces in the constitution of the subject, configuring identity as a coexistence of multiple selves in tension. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29736 2026-02-11T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29722 Title: Entre atos de (des)obediência: o Passing racial e a construção interseccional, performativa e dialógica de feminilidades negras em Identidade, de Nella Larsen Author(s)/Inventor(s): Silveira, Vitor Luiz Vieira da Advisor: Wels, Érica Schlude Abstract: This research investigates the construction of Black femininities in Passing ([1929] 2020), by Nella Larsen. The study aims to identify and analyze the impacts of racial passing on how Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry construct their subjectivities while negotiating their identities as Black women in the United States in the early twentieth century. Through a qualitative analysis of selected passages from the novel, I employ an intersectional, performative, and dialogic approach to examine how the discourses of Larsen’s characters, the narrator, and the author herself perpetuate and/or challenge dominant and essentialist norms of race, gender, and class. Additionally, I investigate how the social meanings attributed to passing by the haracters reveal the intersecting forms of oppression, subordination, and privilege that shape their lives. The findings indicate that Clare destabilizes racial boundaries by understanding passing as an individual strategy for social mobility while simultaneously reinforcing the logic of whiteness through the erasure of her Black identity. Irene, in turn, interprets passing as a betrayal of lack collective values, yet reproduces white and bourgeois ideals that reiterate the colonial order. Thus, the study concludes that Larsen’s characters co-construct their identities through ongoing negotiation with hegemonic discourses of race, gender, and class, at times corroborating them and at others subverting them in the pursuit of ways of being that affirm their humanity. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29722 2025-12-16T00:00:00Z