| dc.description.abstract | In the present research, developed from the theoretical and methodological assumptions of materialist
Discourse Analysis, we undertake a reflection on the constitution of the discourse about the Homeland
during the period of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985), specifically in circulation in the
press in the countryside, State of Rio Grande do Sul (RS). Thus, we aim to understand how the press
managed to work, in that socio-historical and ideological moment, a certain memory about the
Homeland, affiliated, above all, to the knowledge of Christian Religious Discursive Formation and
Military Discursive Formation. For this purpose, we chose the newspaper O Cerro Largo, which
circulated between 1957 and 1974, in the city of Cerro Largo, located in the countryside of the State of
Rio Grande do Sul (RS) as an object of research. Through the newspaper editions, we designed the
research corpus, consisting of nine discursive clippings that appear in the materialities in circulation,
notably, in the sections alluding to the “Dia da Pátria” and the “Holiday of Tiradentes”, but we also focus
on materialities which refer to the period of validity of the decree of Institutional Act N. 5 (AI-5),
considered the most repressive of the military period. In light of this, our reflections permeate the
ideological functioning of/in language, focusing on the production/movement of meanings about the
Homeland during a period that is marked by the interdiction and repression of the subject's
freedom. There is a memory, a discourse of, which returns and organizes the discourse about the
Homeland, determining the events to be “celebrated” and put into circulation by the place of memory,
the newspaper O Cerro Largo. On this threshold, we understand that the present research allows us to
observe how the discourse about the Homeland was constituted in the newspaper, anchored in a memory,
producing its variety, which is repeated, retaken, which stabilizes the senses, via a paraphrastic effect,
in order to “throw out” of the subject discourse those meanings that were forbidden to the FDs considered
dominant at the time. Furthermore, we explain the interdiscourse functioning, as pre- constructed, and
the effect of the transverse discourse, which signal the ways in which these meanings about the
Homeland return in the subject discourse, via the memory functioning, in the dictatorial production
conditions. | |
