"Orgulho de ser nordestino": An analisys of the ways of saying the northeastern subject and their ways of subjectivation.

Abstract

By analyzing both discourses of pride and prejudice towards Northeasterners, we aim to understand, in this article, the ways of saying the Northeast and the Northeastern that sustain such discourses. As a way of cut these discourses, our corpus was built from listening to Northeastern subjects about the ways of meaning of two statements: “orgulho de ser nordestino” and “tinha que ser nordestino”. Anchored in the Discourse Analysis with affiliation in Pêcheux, we observed, from the analyses, how the interviewed subjects, when talking about theses two statements, subjectivize themselves and, at the same time, mobilize crystallized meanings of sayings already socially sedimented about the “being Northeastern”. In the game between pride and prejudice, memory networks and ideological affiliation are stirred by the repetition-restructuring-destabilization of meanings already given.