Do grito que clama por atenção ao “inaudível” que ecoa: um estudo discursivo sobre as vozes do agressor e da agredida em fotografias do Project Unbreakable

Abstract

The physical, psychological and/or sexual violence against women is an old problem that still persists in your society. To fight this reality, there are national and international projects and organizations that combat the gender violence and aim to support the women who were victims of aggressions. One example is the northamerican case of Project Unbreakable, whic aims to raise awareness on issues that involve sexual violence, domestic violence and child abuse. This initiative publishes photographs in social networks where women appear holding signs with transcriptions of what they have heard from their assaulters during the abusive moment. The agressors’ speeches reproduced by the assaulted and which are present in the photographs of the project constitute the archive of this research, whose guiding wire seeks to know what the assaulter reveals about himself and about the society upon enunciating what he enunciates to the assaulted. Within the theoritical field of the French Discourse Analysis, this research aims to comprihend the effects of meaning that these discourses produce, as well as to unveil the voices that cross them. To do so, ten discoursive sequences extracted from the selected photographs to compose the corpus, will be analyzed. For this analytical reflection, the theoretical and methodological basis of the AD will be used, and, because it is intended to explore the superposition of voices, the notion of poliphony postuled by Bakhtin (2010) and Ducrot (1987) and Authier-Revuz’s (1990) notion of enuntiative heterogeneity will also be used. These authors were chosen because they scan the path of the discourses in which the manifestation of different voices occurs. However, as these theories are external to the theoritical feild of AD, the research highlights the points were they approach and face each other, so that it is possible to outline a theory of voices that is consonant with the assumptions of AD. From this moviment of theoritical and analytical confront, the research seeks to demonstrate that the voices present in discourses are ideological and, because of that, they are supportes by ideological and discoursive formations which determine the subjects of discourse, revealing the overdetermination and the dominance of an ideological voice that lowers ans objectifies the women, where as it empowers the men, allowing him to abuse and blame his victim.