Abstract

DE MELO RESENDE, Viviane. DISSIMILARITY AND PURGE OF THE OTHER IN THE DEBATE ON DECREASING THE LEGAL AGE IN BRAZIL: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS. Forma funcion, Santaf, de Bogot, D.C. [online]. 2009, vol.22, n.1, pp.145-159. ISSN 0120-338X.

In Brazil, violent events involving young people have guided the debate about decreasing the legal age. In February 2007, a car theft resulted in the brutal murder of a child, and in a context of public emotion against urban violence, Brazilian media took a clear position in favor of the decrease of legal age. In this paper, I propose a critical discourse analysis of excerpts from a chat with a deputy admittedly favorable to the legal age decrease.

Keywords : critical discourse analysis; dissimilarity; social apartheid; legal age; social exclusion.

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