Lg & masculinities panel at IPrA 2003

[Dina Maria Machado A. Martins Ferreira]

Dear Jeff,

I'm interested to be on the panel. After my data, the abstracts 
for your lecture. Waiting for a quickly answer, it is to close to the submission deadline. In case of acceptance on the panel have I do my inscription alone, writting the title of the panel? Or all the workpaper (including the inscription form) have to be sended together? 

Best regards,

Dina

Dina Maria Martins Ferreira (Doctor in Linguistic, in Post Doc.)
Mackenzie University and State University of Campinas/Unicamp
São Paulo, Brazil
tel. & fax: (55)(11)3236-8393
e-mail: dinaferreira at terra.com.br 
abstract in french and in english



PRACTICES OF IDENTITY IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PLACES: POLITICAL FIGURES

 

A masculine political figure running for the presidency  of his country when asked about the influence of  his wife (a famous, pretty actress  known for her work in the television and movie business) in the election process, replies that she is just the woman he goes to bed with. The question is how to interpret what was said by the masculine figure,  how to organize the publicized ideological values and how the  private component explosion of sexual love coexists with the social value attributions of the masculine and feminine components reflected in the public sphere. In private, the category emotion is triggered, since both men and women are announcing the presence of amorous pulsation; at that moment, a pragmaticist action is taking place: amorous sharing is desirable. In public, the social roles (the traditional ideological status quo) represent the masculine and feminine figures: men  head the couple and women are their mates, the objects of desire. The private sphere, for its solidarity with the  pathos pulsation,  enables us to  catch a glimpse  of the nature of metaphorical language; the collective sphere, while hiding the private component by/in the crystallization of sociocultural  values, tends to stabilize  language literality. By means of an analytical relational route between the private and public offered in/by metaphorical and literal languages,  a polysemous search of the masculine and feminine identities is established. 

 

DES PRATIQUES IDENTITAIRES  DANS LES ESPACES PRIVÉ ET PUBLIC:

DES SUJETS POLITIQUES

 

Un personnage politique, masculin, candidat aux présidentielles, interrogé sur l'influence de sa femme (actrice, belle, connue et reconnue par son travail à la télévision et au cinéma) sur le processus électoral, répond qu'elle n'est que sa partenaire au lit. On se demande comment entendre le langage proféré, comment organiser les valeurs idéologiques diffusées, et comment l'explosion du privé de l'amour sexuel cohabite avec les valeurs sociales du masculin et du féminin réflétéés dans le cadre public. Sans le privé, la catégorie de l'émotion est activée, car autant l'homme que la femme annonce la présence de la pulsion amoureuse ; à cet instant, une action pragmaticiste arrive: il est bon le partage amoureux. Dans le public, les rôles sociaux (status quo idéologique traditionnel) représentent les figures masculin et féminin : l'homme commande le couple et la femme est la compagne, l'objet du plaisir. Le privé, de par sa solidarité avec la pulsion du pathos, permet d'apercevoir la nature métaphorique du langage ; et le collectif, en cachant le privé par/dans la cristalisation des valeurs socioculturelles, a tendence à stabiliser la litéralité du langage. La recherche « polysémique » de la construction de l'identité féminine et masculine s'instaure sur un parcours analytique relationnel, offert  dans/par le langage metaphorique et literalisé, entre privé et public.

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