It's not a matter of inhumanity

A critical discourse analysis of an apartment building circular on `homeless people

Bibliographic Data

ID12252927
AuthorsViviane De Melo Resende (0000-0002-7791-5757, Universidade Católica de Brasília, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume20
Issue3
Pages363-379
Publication date2009-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0957-9265 • E-ISSN: 1460-3624
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0957926509102407
OpenAlexW2134891110
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited6

Based upon Critical Discourse Analysis (Chouliaraki and Fairclough, 1999; Fairclough, 2003), this study analyses a report of a meeting, distributed as a circular to residents of a middle-class apartment building in Asa Sul, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil. The circular is the outcome of a meeting held between the apartment building's representative, local business people and Federal District Government authorities concerning `homeless people' in the environs of the apartment building and local business establishments. The discursive analysis of the text indicates that it serves in a sense to camouflage the street situation as a social issue. At the same time, it nullifies `homeless people' (Thompson, 1990) by legitimating social apartheid in Brazilian society (Buarque, 2003). The analysis seeks therefore to discuss the naturalization of misery in contemporary societies through the internalization of hegemonic discourses that serve to blank out basic social rights

Apartment · Census · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Hegemony · Ideology · Linguistics · Media studies · Naturalization · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law

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