Urban violence in Brazil and the role of the media

Abstract

This paper reports on analyses of data gathered from discourse interactions of two focus groups of Brazilian university students (n = 11) as they talk about urban violence in Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil. The analytical procedure follows Cameron et al.’s (2009) metaphor-led discourse analysis which focuses on the role metaphor vehicles play in the emergence of systematic metaphors in discourse. The findings highlight the trivialization of violence in Brazil by the media/TV, evidenced by the emergence in the talk of three related systematic metaphors:violence is a product manufactured by the media, violence is a spreading contagious diseaseandfear as a response to violence is a form of imprisonment.

Sports fanaticism as a disease: a Corpus-based study of metaphors in Saudi newspapers

“…To begin with, disease and disease metaphors have received scholarly treatments in various different languages: Of course, English is setting on the top most researched languages related to such phenomena (see for instance, Sontag, 1979 , 1989 ; Semino et al, 2004 , 2015 , 2018 ; Potts and Semino, 2019 ). Other investigated languages include: Spanish ( Landtsheer, 2009 ; Negro, 2016 ; Magaña and Matlock, 2018 ; Oster, 2019 ; Sabucedo et al, 2020 ), German ( Oster, 2019 ), Ukrainian ( Dilai and Serafin, 2019 ), French ( Perrez and Reuchamps, 2014 ; Negro, 2016 ), Dutch ( Perrez and Reuchamps, 2014 ), Italian ( Wehling, 2016 ), Persian ( Bakhtiar, 2017 ), Russian ( Pinelli, 2016 ), Greek ( Tsakona, 2012 ), Brazilian Portuguese ( Pelosi et al, 2014 ; Ribeiro et al, 2018 ), Arabic ( Zibin, 2020 ; Abaalalaa and Ibrahim, 2022 ; Zibin and Hamdan, 2023 ), Chinese ( Chiang and Duann, 2007 ), and several languages as in Olza et al (2021) , Brugman et al (2022) , and Pérez-Sobrino et al (2022) . Thus, one can say that disease metaphors have been investigated in several different languages.…”

“…With respect to disease/illness as a source domain (i.e., SOMETHING IS DISEASE/ILLNESS/TYPES-NAMES OF SPECIFIC DISEASES/ILLNESSES), it is substantially documented in the literature. A wider range of literature shows that metaphors of disease as a source domain are frequently used to portray various topics and themes related to: political unrest ( Charteris-Black, 2011 ; Musolff, 2016 ; Wehling, 2016 ), societal problems ( Woodhams, 2012 ; Pelosi et al, 2014 ; Charteris-Black, 2017 ), sociopolitical issues ( O'Brien, 2003 ; Zibin, 2020 ), health challenges ( Balteiro, 2017 ; Cotter et al, 2021 ; Olza et al, 2021 ), financial crisis and economic dilemmas ( Charteris-Black, 2004 ; Negro, 2016 ; Brugman et al, 2019 ), technical problems ( Isaeva and Burdina, 2019 ; Oster, 2019 ), and negative emotions ( Kövecses, 2000 ; Zibin and Hamdan, 2023 ).…”

A categorização como sistema adaptativo complexo no processamento da leitura: fluxo dos atratores no mundo bíblico

“…Assim assumimos inicialmente nosso viés cognitivista com fulcros na dinâmica dos sistemas complexos (MORIN, 2005;LARSEN-FREEMAN;CAMERON, 2012, PELOSI;FELTES;CAMERON, 2014;ALMEIDA JÚNIOR, 2016) e ressaltamos que traremos apenas alguns aspectos das características do processo de categorização como SAC (Sistema Adaptativo Complexo) e suas relações com a conceitualização e inferenciação na construção de sentido de um trecho bíblico por indivíduos de formação religiosa diversa e o acionamento dos atratores e espaço-fase.…”

Metaphors we live by in Brazil: anthropophagic notes on classic and contemporary approaches to metaphor in the Brazilian scientific-academic context / Metáforas da Vida Cotidiana no Brasil: notas antropofágicas sobre abordagens clássicas e contemporâneas da metáfora no contexto acadêmico-científico brasileiro

“…The study gathered together focal groups composed of Brazilian adults to discuss the high levels of urban violence experienced in some fast-growing cities in Brazil; this work resulting in a number of publications (e.g. CAMERON 2012;CAMERON et al, 2014;PELOSI et al, 2014), as well as in theses and dissertations that focused on specific aspects of the broader results, such as the issue of domestic violence against women (e.g. CARNEIRO, 2014).…”