Elas estão descontroladas : um estudo das estratégias linguístico-discursivas de (re)afirmação do machismo nas letras de funk masculinas nas décadas de 1990, 2000 e 2010

Abstract

The present thesis aims to describe and analyze the changes in funk music lyrics from Rio de Janeiro sung by men throughout the 1990 s, 2000 s and 2010 s, as a way of demonstrating the sexist clash in these texts where the male enunciator tries to reformulate himself after the entrance of women in this music scene in the 2000 s and verify how the linguistics mechanisms work to establish the female imagery and constitute the male ethos. Studying this genre is fundamental for two reasons: for the massive absorption of this kind of music by the Brazilian population in the last decades, and for the increasing violence against black women, as shown by the Mapa da Violência 2015 (Map of Violence 2015). Once it is known that funk is a music genre born with peripheral black population and that it is still extremely absorbed and composed by this exact population group, it becomes essential to establish the connection between the lyrics and the increasing violence against black women. In order to reach the aim of the present paper, 28 funk lyrics sung by men and which approach the female presence were selected and put under quantitative and qualitative analysis. This linguistic/discursive study is based upon the semiolinguistic theory by Patrick Charaudeau (2005, 2008) and the concept of ethos by Charaudeau (2008, 2011) and Maingueneau (1997, 2008). It is concluded that sexism has always been present in funk lyrics in Rio de Janeiro, and not only after the entrance of women in the funk music scene. However, it is noteworthy that the sexism against women falls on men themselves in the 1990 s, an unexpected result at the beginning of this research. The 2000 s represented a transitional period, in which the male enunciating subjects put efforts to reinvent their own imagery and their relationship with women. Finally, the 2010 s present a new path in the relationship between men and women, started in the previous decade