Mulheres do rap: construções discursivas de mulheres negras

Abstract

This research presents an approach to social issues in language based on the theoretical and analytical articulation of the concept of discourse as social practice (Fairclough, 2016) and the theoretical architecture of Halliday's Systemic-Functional Linguistics (1994, 2004, 2014). Our aim is to critically analyze the discursive identity constructions of black women rappers from São Paulo, mainly through the lens of race and social gender. It is based on the hypotheses that the construction of identities takes place in the articulation between the linguistic and the social, which are inseparable, and that the social contexts of oppression, discrimination and racism play a decisive role in the discursive identity constructions of black women. Halliday's LSF (1994, 2004, 2014) will underpin the study of the description of the materiality and functioning of the Portuguese language in use, through its transitivity system and its classifications of types of processes, participants and circumstances. The research corpus consists of 6 (six) testimonies by black women published in the book Mulheres de palavra - um retrato das mulheres no rap de São Paulo (2016). The results obtained in the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data show that material and mental processes are more frequent and are directly related to discursive functions related to race and social gender. The study reinforces the importance of linguistic materiality in order to decipher the meanings of the texts. The testimonials of these black women rappers are full of protagonism, militancy, and the search for social transformation through the inseparability between life, art and struggle