MARGINALIZING MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT TRANSVESTITES AND TRANSSEXUALS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF SINOP AND THE AMAZON REGION OF MATO-GROSSENSE
Discourse Analysis, Media Discourse, Gender Issues, Transvestite.
The research aimed to analyze the media discourses about transvestites and transsexuals in the city of Sinop and surroundings in the Amazon region of Mato Grosso. She casts her gaze at a corpus composed of 14 news articles published on websites in the region between March 2018 and June 2021, broadcast by the three most prominent websites in the region and researched by transvestites and transsexuals. This resource made it possible to highlight the discursive elements and follow the path to the process of construction of meanings, aiming to understand how the conditions of production and the definition of meanings that operate on the marginalization of this social group by the media occur, in a perspective of language traversed by the symbolic. The research is based on the historical materialist Discourse Analysis and based on the contributions of the French philosopher Michel Pêcheux and the Brazilian researcher Eni Orlandi, with emphasis on the concepts of discourse, discursive formations, ideological formations, as well as the effects of meaning, discursive constructions and silencing. In the course of the work, a historical line of struggles for the rights of transvestites and transsexuals, gender and sexuality issues is contextualized. From this perspective, the issue of the construction of transvestites and transsexuals as gender identity is addressed. It also analyzes the meanings that emerge in the social imaginary based on media discourses. In terms of analysis, it was observed that the effects of meaning brought in the articles demonstrate that transvestites and transsexuals experience stigmas that operate on the construction of their identities and their bodies, making it difficult for them to resignifies themselves and move freely in the social environment without judgments marginalizers.