cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7451558.v1
title: New Paths for Science: A Contrastive Discourse Analysis of Modifications in Popularizing Science through Digital Media

description: ABSTRACT This article investigates how oral utterances in science dissemination are modified in digital media, specifically on YouTube, to achieve their main goal of developing a scientific culture among the viewing public from their apperceptive background of responsive understanding and from within the discursive culture with which they identify. To this end, we analyze the transmission of alien discourse on the Brazilian channel Nerdologia and the American channel Scishow. The analysis is based, on the one hand, on the theoretical precepts of the Bakhtin Circle, and, on the other hand, on the theoretical-methodological proposal of contrastive discourse analysis. Based on this framework, we found relationships between the quantitative and qualitative occurrences of forms of transmission of alien discourse in the corpus. In both cases, they highlight similarities between the two channels, outlining a general spectrum of changes made by this discursive modality in digital media and point to their differences, related to the different discursive cultures actualized by the utterances.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20043446
title: Irony as a Zone of Confrontation between Different Voices/Voicings in Facebook Comments

description: ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose to analyze if, and how, irony serves as a zone of dialogue and tension among different voices/voicings presented as discourses of feminist resistance. To this end, our concept of language is based on discussions developed by the Bakhtin Circle on irony as a discursive strategy as well as considerations about what is known as the rape culture and myths related to it. Our corpus is comprised of anonymous, ironic comments made by women on Facebook posts, on spotted1 pages. The results of the data analysis show that, through the appropriation of the discursive-myths related to the culture of rape, women introduced, in their utterances, zones of tension between messages, characterizing irony as women's discourse of resistance against sexist discourse.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20043446.v1
title: Irony as a Zone of Confrontation between Different Voices/Voicings in Facebook Comments

description: ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose to analyze if, and how, irony serves as a zone of dialogue and tension among different voices/voicings presented as discourses of feminist resistance. To this end, our concept of language is based on discussions developed by the Bakhtin Circle on irony as a discursive strategy as well as considerations about what is known as the rape culture and myths related to it. Our corpus is comprised of anonymous, ironic comments made by women on Facebook posts, on spotted1 pages. The results of the data analysis show that, through the appropriation of the discursive-myths related to the culture of rape, women introduced, in their utterances, zones of tension between messages, characterizing irony as women's discourse of resistance against sexist discourse.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7453007
title: Formation of the Image of the Russian World as an Aspect of Sociocultural Adaptation of Foreigners in the Process of Teaching the Russian Language

description: ABSTRACT This article intends to analyze the real image of the Russian World, the main construction of which is the Russian language. Education given in Russian contains not only unique knowledge, but also special values and a system of views reflecting the essence of the Russian World. Today, education is becoming one of the most effective instruments for implementing Russia's soft power. A growing influx of international students into Russian universities is increasing the role of preparatory colleges which organize purposeful and systematic work on socio-cultural adaptation of foreign citizens. During this work, the teachers of Russian as a foreign language (RFL) face the task of forming an objective, and at the same time, attractive image of the Russian World. This article outlines the main ways to solve this issue.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.7453007.v1
title: Formation of the Image of the Russian World as an Aspect of Sociocultural Adaptation of Foreigners in the Process of Teaching the Russian Language

description: ABSTRACT This article intends to analyze the real image of the Russian World, the main construction of which is the Russian language. Education given in Russian contains not only unique knowledge, but also special values and a system of views reflecting the essence of the Russian World. Today, education is becoming one of the most effective instruments for implementing Russia's soft power. A growing influx of international students into Russian universities is increasing the role of preparatory colleges which organize purposeful and systematic work on socio-cultural adaptation of foreign citizens. During this work, the teachers of Russian as a foreign language (RFL) face the task of forming an objective, and at the same time, attractive image of the Russian World. This article outlines the main ways to solve this issue.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8031377.v1
title: Meme Discourse: (De)Memetizing Antifeminist Ideology

description: ABSTRACT This work aims to discuss the need to think memes from the perspective of a critical visual literacy. More specifically, we seek to analyze how memes are used in social practices that somehow establish or maintain relations of gender domination and to explain how the idea of a critical visual literacy might be useful to oppose this kind of discourse production. This discussion is developed in the light of the concepts of multiliteracies, critical visual literacy, Critical Social Theory and the metafunctions of visual language.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.8031377
title: Meme Discourse: (De)Memetizing Antifeminist Ideology

description: ABSTRACT This work aims to discuss the need to think memes from the perspective of a critical visual literacy. More specifically, we seek to analyze how memes are used in social practices that somehow establish or maintain relations of gender domination and to explain how the idea of a critical visual literacy might be useful to oppose this kind of discourse production. This discussion is developed in the light of the concepts of multiliteracies, critical visual literacy, Critical Social Theory and the metafunctions of visual language.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9276305.v1
title: Bakhtin's Bodies

description: ABSTRACT Bakhtin's thinking, early and late focused upon images of the human body. A body is a thing understood by looking at it: to see is to know. This 'looking' has nothing of the objectivising qualities of what is known today as the 'gaze'. Bakhtin's early philosophy is based on a compassionate engagement whereby one person helps another see and know themselves as a whole, and moreover, as a loved whole. As limiting as it is, I shall argue his early conception of the body still has much value. The argument then turns to Bakhtin's later and much more familiar images of the grotesque body. While his early body is static, now we see the body engaged in a tumultuous and unending interaction with its social and natural environment. Was this an anti-Soviet allegory, or an alternative vision of the human body that reaches back into pre-history? I offer two illustrations in defence of the idea that this was indeed a philosophy of the body.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9276305
title: Bakhtin's Bodies

description: ABSTRACT Bakhtin's thinking, early and late focused upon images of the human body. A body is a thing understood by looking at it: to see is to know. This 'looking' has nothing of the objectivising qualities of what is known today as the 'gaze'. Bakhtin's early philosophy is based on a compassionate engagement whereby one person helps another see and know themselves as a whole, and moreover, as a loved whole. As limiting as it is, I shall argue his early conception of the body still has much value. The argument then turns to Bakhtin's later and much more familiar images of the grotesque body. While his early body is static, now we see the body engaged in a tumultuous and unending interaction with its social and natural environment. Was this an anti-Soviet allegory, or an alternative vision of the human body that reaches back into pre-history? I offer two illustrations in defence of the idea that this was indeed a philosophy of the body.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9276689
title: Laboratory, Spectacle, Disassembly: Dialogical-theatrical Experiments of the Carmen Group in A Serpente [The Serpent], by Nelson Rodrigues

description: ABSTRACT On the border between theater and dialogism, this article proposes reflections on the process of staging A Serpente, by Nelson Rodrigues in 2017 and 2018 by the Carmen Group - Body, Art, Movement and Staging Training Center. From a perspective that reports and analyzes at the same time steps of scenic creation, the text dialogues with the Bakhtinian theory, seeking to understand the constitutive aspects of three dialogical-theatrical experiments: the group's laboratory work, called Serpentes de laboratório, the assembly of A Serpente [The Serpent]in its Show format and the session of Disassembly Scenic. In addition to the theoretical, technical and methodological specificities of each one of the experiments, results signal aspects concerning authorship, reception and significance of the different situations of theatrical communication experienced by the group.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.9276689.v1
title: Laboratory, Spectacle, Disassembly: Dialogical-theatrical Experiments of the Carmen Group in A Serpente [The Serpent], by Nelson Rodrigues

description: ABSTRACT On the border between theater and dialogism, this article proposes reflections on the process of staging A Serpente, by Nelson Rodrigues in 2017 and 2018 by the Carmen Group - Body, Art, Movement and Staging Training Center. From a perspective that reports and analyzes at the same time steps of scenic creation, the text dialogues with the Bakhtinian theory, seeking to understand the constitutive aspects of three dialogical-theatrical experiments: the group's laboratory work, called Serpentes de laboratório, the assembly of A Serpente [The Serpent]in its Show format and the session of Disassembly Scenic. In addition to the theoretical, technical and methodological specificities of each one of the experiments, results signal aspects concerning authorship, reception and significance of the different situations of theatrical communication experienced by the group.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.10438034
title: Semiotics of Nonsense and Non-sense: A Lotmanian Perspective

description: ABSTRACT Absurdity and nonsense are usually studied as philosophical and/or logical categories. This paper examines nonsense as a semiotic phenomenon and as part of the mechanisms of meaning generation, and argues that the problem of nonsense and meaning as a whole is foremost a textual problem. This approach is based on the legacy of the semiotician and literary scholar Iurii Lotman, and especially his concepts of explosion and the notions of “non-text” and “minus-device.” The concept of nonsense thus highlights the inherent informational paradox of human culture and human communication systems, in which noise, errors and mishaps do not impede communication but on the contrary, stimulate it. On a larger scale the example of how human cultures deal with ‘non-sense’ in communication has implications for the study of the evolution of human culture and language and also draws additional light to the methodological problem of the text/sign relation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.10438034.v1
title: Semiotics of Nonsense and Non-sense: A Lotmanian Perspective

description: ABSTRACT Absurdity and nonsense are usually studied as philosophical and/or logical categories. This paper examines nonsense as a semiotic phenomenon and as part of the mechanisms of meaning generation, and argues that the problem of nonsense and meaning as a whole is foremost a textual problem. This approach is based on the legacy of the semiotician and literary scholar Iurii Lotman, and especially his concepts of explosion and the notions of “non-text” and “minus-device.” The concept of nonsense thus highlights the inherent informational paradox of human culture and human communication systems, in which noise, errors and mishaps do not impede communication but on the contrary, stimulate it. On a larger scale the example of how human cultures deal with ‘non-sense’ in communication has implications for the study of the evolution of human culture and language and also draws additional light to the methodological problem of the text/sign relation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11313023
title: “It’s True This Notte”: Dialogic Relations and/in Discourse in the Cyberspace

description: ABSTRACT This paper presents a study of sociocultural practices that exemplify how subjects interact online with offline events. We analyse selected posts collected from social media profiles supported by Facebook. Each excerpt shows the affirmative “It’s true this notte,” a rough translation of a written message addressed by a four-year-old Brazilian boy to his mother stating that there would “supposedly” be a school holiday the following day. The note went viral after his teacher posted it publicly on her social media timeline and the reassuring assertion was (re)appropriated multiple times in the cyberspace so as to as trigger a humour effect in different discourse instances. Grounded on the concepts of meme; remix; Bakhtinian dialogism and Foucauldian’s ideas on truth, we perform a discursive analysis. Our results point to track marks of axiological positions of contemporary subjects that resort to irony to construct/share utterances in order to establish their will to truth in the digital landscape.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11313023.v1
title: “It’s True This Notte”: Dialogic Relations and/in Discourse in the Cyberspace

description: ABSTRACT This paper presents a study of sociocultural practices that exemplify how subjects interact online with offline events. We analyse selected posts collected from social media profiles supported by Facebook. Each excerpt shows the affirmative “It’s true this notte,” a rough translation of a written message addressed by a four-year-old Brazilian boy to his mother stating that there would “supposedly” be a school holiday the following day. The note went viral after his teacher posted it publicly on her social media timeline and the reassuring assertion was (re)appropriated multiple times in the cyberspace so as to as trigger a humour effect in different discourse instances. Grounded on the concepts of meme; remix; Bakhtinian dialogism and Foucauldian’s ideas on truth, we perform a discursive analysis. Our results point to track marks of axiological positions of contemporary subjects that resort to irony to construct/share utterances in order to establish their will to truth in the digital landscape.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314343
title: The Concept of Verbal-visual Quotation Marks and their Classifications

description: ABSTRACT This article aims to present the concept of verbal-visual quotation marks and their classifications. Once the phenomenon is taken in its verbal-visual dimension, it must be understood as an opacifying meta-utterative unfolding (in an analogy to autonymic modalizations in the verbal dimension), resulting from certain relations between verbal and visual elements that constitute the same utterance. The three classifications of the phenomenon are: verbal-visual quotation marks with a direct relationship between verbal and visual elements; verbal-visual quotation marks that opacify verbal elements on the visual plane, and verbal-visual quotation marks with opacifying verbal-visual allegory. This paper aims to contribute to the field of language studies by providing it with the concept of verbal-visual quotation marks and its classifications, and to offer a new theoretical-methodological instrument to research that focuses on the verbal-visual dimension of utterances and their ways of producing meaning effects.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314343.v1
title: The Concept of Verbal-visual Quotation Marks and their Classifications

description: ABSTRACT This article aims to present the concept of verbal-visual quotation marks and their classifications. Once the phenomenon is taken in its verbal-visual dimension, it must be understood as an opacifying meta-utterative unfolding (in an analogy to autonymic modalizations in the verbal dimension), resulting from certain relations between verbal and visual elements that constitute the same utterance. The three classifications of the phenomenon are: verbal-visual quotation marks with a direct relationship between verbal and visual elements; verbal-visual quotation marks that opacify verbal elements on the visual plane, and verbal-visual quotation marks with opacifying verbal-visual allegory. This paper aims to contribute to the field of language studies by providing it with the concept of verbal-visual quotation marks and its classifications, and to offer a new theoretical-methodological instrument to research that focuses on the verbal-visual dimension of utterances and their ways of producing meaning effects.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20043464
title: Between the Decent and the Precarious: A Biopolitical Framework of Women in Journalistic Photographs about the Bolsa-Família Program

description: ABSTRACT From the perspectives of Foucault, Fassin, Rancière and Butler, this paper outlines the existence of a biopolitical framing in press pictures of impoverished women included in the Bolsa Familia social project. The present reflection is based on the partial results of a research project developed with the financial support of CNPq in which we analyze a total of 150 pictures related to the Bolsa Família Program. They were collected from the newspapers Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, O Globo, and the magazines Veja and IstoÉ from 2003 to 2015. We argue that the biopolitical framing involves the production of narratives that distinguish ways of life that are “dignified” from those that are not. It also highlights situations of vulnerability and governmentality that shape appearances and prepare them to define citizens and exemplary groups, using certain parameters for consideration and appreciation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20043464.v1
title: Between the Decent and the Precarious: A Biopolitical Framework of Women in Journalistic Photographs about the Bolsa-Família Program

description: ABSTRACT From the perspectives of Foucault, Fassin, Rancière and Butler, this paper outlines the existence of a biopolitical framing in press pictures of impoverished women included in the Bolsa Familia social project. The present reflection is based on the partial results of a research project developed with the financial support of CNPq in which we analyze a total of 150 pictures related to the Bolsa Família Program. They were collected from the newspapers Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, O Globo, and the magazines Veja and IstoÉ from 2003 to 2015. We argue that the biopolitical framing involves the production of narratives that distinguish ways of life that are “dignified” from those that are not. It also highlights situations of vulnerability and governmentality that shape appearances and prepare them to define citizens and exemplary groups, using certain parameters for consideration and appreciation.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11313392
title: Between Accidents and Explosions: Indeterminacy and Aesthesia in the Becoming of History

description: ABSTRACT The article proposes a comparison between the concepts of accident, developed by Landowski in his sociosemiotic theory of interaction, and explosion, elaborated by Lotman in his last writings on the semiotics of culture. Far from being an end in itself, this confrontation aims to sketch a theoretical-epistemological synthesis that can contribute to the analysis of the communicational-discursive processes that trigger the historical flow of sociocultural systems, as well as to their conceptual categorisation. My hypothesis is that the basis of this articulation lies in the link between the indeterminacy highlighted by both authors, and the aesthesic value, that is, the core of sensible tensions that, as shown by Landowski, the accidental/explosive events could mobilise. In order to demonstrate its pertinence and relevance, I will focus on a specific case study: the 2013 protests in Brazil and their impact on the process that led to the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11313392.v1
title: Between Accidents and Explosions: Indeterminacy and Aesthesia in the Becoming of History

description: ABSTRACT The article proposes a comparison between the concepts of accident, developed by Landowski in his sociosemiotic theory of interaction, and explosion, elaborated by Lotman in his last writings on the semiotics of culture. Far from being an end in itself, this confrontation aims to sketch a theoretical-epistemological synthesis that can contribute to the analysis of the communicational-discursive processes that trigger the historical flow of sociocultural systems, as well as to their conceptual categorisation. My hypothesis is that the basis of this articulation lies in the link between the indeterminacy highlighted by both authors, and the aesthesic value, that is, the core of sensible tensions that, as shown by Landowski, the accidental/explosive events could mobilise. In order to demonstrate its pertinence and relevance, I will focus on a specific case study: the 2013 protests in Brazil and their impact on the process that led to the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and the election of Jair Bolsonaro in 2018.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11314214
title: Literary Readers’ Education: Possible Dialogues between Conceptions of the Bakhtin Circle and Textbook Activities

description: ABSTRACT This article summons the conceptions of the Bakhtin Circle to redesign literary reading activities proposed in Brazilian textbooks, making them more responsive to contemporary life. It is based on the concepts of dialogism and responsiveness and evokes such concepts to contribute to the perception of infertile use of the current activity model in the (literary) reader’s formation. Besides, it points out possibilities to the elaboration of activities open to the dialogue of students/readers’ experiences with literary texts as well as inviting to the expression of the students’ active responsive attitudes towards literary reading. The article analyzes an activity based on a Camonian sonnet, which is present in one of the textbooks approved by the National Book and Teaching Material Program (Programa Nacional do Livro Didático - PNLD) 2018, in an attempt to contribute to the unlearning of practices regarding the approach to literary reading in school. Finally, the same Camonian sonnet is used to elaborate a set of activities grounded on dialogism and responsiveness.