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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Autor: da Veiga Kalil Filho, Marcos
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2020
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU)
Repositório:Letras & letras (Online)
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/50526
Acesso em linha:https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/letraseletras/article/view/50526
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Semiotics
Human Rights
Tensive semiotics
Social Communication
Democracy
Semiótica
Direitos Humanos
Semiótica tensiva
Comunicação Social
Democracia
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Resumo: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.