ABSTRACT:
Knowing the scope of television for the dissemination of information, entertainment, and ideologies, this paper investigates the characterization of two characters’ speech features from two Brazilian soap opera works: O Sétimo Guardião ( 2018O SÉTIMO guardião. Direção: Rogério Gomes. Rio de Janeiro: Rede Globo, 2018.), and Verdades Secretas ( 2015VERDADES secretas. Direção: Mauro Mendonça Filho e Amora Mautner. Rio de Janeiro: Rede Globo, 2015.), seeking to recognize if the representation can lead viewers to a negative evaluation of characters based on how they express themselves by speaking, or if the representation legitimizes speech as mark of identity. We based the analyses on the Sociolinguistics studies, especially those of Labov ( 2008LABOV, W. Padrões sociolinguísticos. São Paulo: Parábola, 2008.), Pagotto ( 2004PAGOTTO, E. G. Variação e (´) identidade. Maceió: Edufal, 2004.), Bortoni-Ricardo ( 2009BORTONI-RICARDO, S. M. Educação em língua materna: a sociolinguística na sala de aula. 6. ed. São Paulo: Parábola, 2009., 2011BORTONI-RICARDO, S. M. Do campo para a cidade: estudo sociolinguístico de migração e redes sociais. São Paulo: Parábola, 2011.), and Bagno ( 2015BAGNO, M. Preconceito linguístico. 56. ed. São Paulo: Parábola, 2015.). By using qualitative research following the method proposed by Bortoni-Ricardo ( 2009BORTONI-RICARDO, S. M. Educação em língua materna: a sociolinguística na sala de aula. 6. ed. São Paulo: Parábola, 2009.), in which the analyzed speakers are allocated in points of imaginary lines according to their linguistic expression, especially in the “urbanization continuum”, we could conclude that one of the television narratives brings caricature traits, providing opportunities for negative evaluations, whereas the other brings out representation since it reliably shows the represented identities.
KEYWORDS:
linguistic prejudice; television soap operas; identity; stereotype; urbanization continuum
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