Tem experiência no campo da Linguística Aplicada, atuando principalmente nas áreas da Análise Crítica do Discurso, da Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional e da Linguística Feminista. Seus interesses de pesquisa se voltam para questões de gênero (violência de gênero, direitos reprodutivos e sexuais), com foco na análise do discurso jurídico.
In this article I present a framework for critical discourse studies on mental health. By relying on principles belonging to Critical Discourse Studies (Flowerdew & Richardson, 2018; van Leeuwen, 2008; 2007), and the Sociology of Health (Caponi, 2014; Martinez-Hernaez, 2014; Mitjavila, 2015; Rose & Abi-Rached, 2014), at first I introduce a brief contextualization of Critical Discourse Studies as a field of research and establish connections between this field and mental health studies. In the sequence, I present a framework divided in 8 steps focused on the investigation of social practices involving mental health. These steps are then applied to the analysis of one appellate decision produced by the Superior Court of Justice in Brazil involving the diagnosis of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder. The analysis reveals ADHD has a neuropolitical function and that authority related to the diagnosis is vested in medical expertise only, despite the lack of biological markers for it.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.