Why have Human Rights not thrived in Brazil? Contributions of Discourse Semiotics to the civilizing debate
After the Redemocratization period, the average Brazilian citizen was heavily exposed to a negative discourse regarding human rights. Despite the egalitarian and ethical legal framework of humanism, human rights professionals have been poorly considered by a significant portion of the population. Re...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repository: | Letras & letras (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/50526 |
| Online Access: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/letraseletras/article/view/50526 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Semiotics Human Rights Tensive semiotics Social Communication Democracy Semiótica Direitos Humanos Semiótica tensiva Comunicação Social Democracia |
| Summary: | After the Redemocratization period, the average Brazilian citizen was heavily exposed to a negative discourse regarding human rights. Despite the egalitarian and ethical legal framework of humanism, human rights professionals have been poorly considered by a significant portion of the population. Recognizing the enunciative strategies used to disseminate this is part of an effort to understand and cope with a status quo of increasing political radicalization and restriction of rights. French Semiotics provides a comprehensive framework of tools, including the generative trajectory of meaning and tensive semiotics (with its approach to the sensible dimension of meaning), capable of addressing discourses of hate. |
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