Smelly body, pleasing body: subject corporal units within discourse - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v31i2.6684

Authors

  • Nilton Milanez UNESP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v31i2.6684

Keywords:

body, discourse, subject, hygiene, identity

Abstract

In this work I seek to comprehend the body and its identity constitution, particularly within the theoretical postulates of the French Discourse Analysis, developed in Brazil, from the studies of Michel Foucault. Then, I present three videos posted on Youtube as the corpora, which serve as materialities in order to discuss the relation among subjects, concerning the place the body takes as a discursive object. Thus, I focus on the subject and its practices of hygiene, highlighting three kinds of subject relations and their bodies: first, some aspects that compose the domination of bodies; second, the body used as a way of desire and passion control; third, the body as places of resistance and liberty production. Finally, the body is studied according to its relation of power among subjects, producing identities through the media.

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Author Biography

  • Nilton Milanez, UNESP
    Tem experiência na área de Lingüística, Literatura e Ensino com ênfase em Análise do Discurso, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: corpo, mídia, história, memória, sujeito e identidades. Currículo Lattes

Published

2009-10-06

Issue

Section

Linguistics

How to Cite

Milanez, N. (2009). Smelly body, pleasing body: subject corporal units within discourse - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v31i2.6684. Acta Scientiarum. Language and Culture, 31(2), 215-222. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascilangcult.v31i2.6684

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