Práticas discursivas sobre o gaúcho em tempos de censura (1964-1969): um caso da imprensa escrita no Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

We aim, in this thesis, understand the operation of the discourse on the gaucho at the press in times of censorship. From the perspective of Discourse Analysis, initiated in the works developed by the group of intellectuals around Michel Pêcheux, in France, our work takes place in-between the bases made, beyond the relationship myth and non-myth. The practices of journalistic discourse collaborate to form a stabilizing effect of the senses on the gaucho, the construction of references to this identification process. Such stabilizing effect allows our observation on the prohibition of registration of the subject in certain discoursive formations in operation since the newspaper foundation (Zero Hora) in 1964. We have performed our cutouts considering chronologically (straightness which does not apply to the movement of the senses) the period from 1964, the year of the coup, until 1969, the first year after the establishment of Institutional Act Number 5 (Institutional Act that extended and helped the 'models' of repression and torture). Taking the discoursive processess as heterogeneous, we made a movement that aims to identify the assumptions stabilized in the journalistic discourse on the gaucho, and, mainly, to deconstruct the evidences put into circulation after the coup of 64. From the analysis of the discoursive excerpts - the identification of different subject positions we find in the 'textualizing' of journalistic discourse - we could make explicit the operation of ideology in this process of signification. Acting on an institutionalization effect of the senses, the press collaborates in maintaining a certain order: the imposition of the gaucho‟s myth, gaucho as sul rio-grandense, closed in its borders and, with it, in its meaning.