“Truth” and success: economic utilitarianism as a discourse in clash with education and science
Constituent discourses, such as the religious and the philosophical, are those that legitimize themselves, relying on “their own truth”, while other discourses, such as journalistic ones, seek to base their arguments on other legitimizing sources. Nowadays, the economic discourse seems to rise to a...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN) |
| Repositorio: | Cadernos de Linguística |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs3.cadernos.abralin.org:article/467 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/467 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Discurso constituinte Verdade Economia Educação Constituent discourse Truth Economy Education |
| Sumario: | Constituent discourses, such as the religious and the philosophical, are those that legitimize themselves, relying on “their own truth”, while other discourses, such as journalistic ones, seek to base their arguments on other legitimizing sources. Nowadays, the economic discourse seems to rise to a maximum degree of constituent discourse, as shown by the “success formulas” that circulate in discursive practice. In this paper, we present a theoretical discussion about the constituent discourses and the notion of “truth”, in the light of some data, with the objective of, on the one hand, reflecting on the emergence of the economic discourse as the main constituent of the present time and, on the other hand, expanding discussions on the material functioning of this discourse in a corpus of digital media. The theoretical-methodological assumptions of the French Discourse Analysis support our work, in which we mobilize: the theoretical conception of the constituent discourses, according to the framework proposed by Maingueneau; the reflection on “truth” and “subjectivity”, based on Lacanian psychoanalysis. We understand that the supremacy of the economic discourse plays a decisive role in the reproduction of historical-scientific denialism, since, among other factors, it justifies policies centered more on economics than on education and science. |
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