A voz do caminhoneiro no rádio amador : prática discursiva e seus possíveis efeitos

Abstract

In this research, considering the use of the amateur radio by truck drivers who are members of the PX group, we intend to understand and to show how these workers deal with social questions (life conditions and images) in the discourse relations they keep, via amateur radio, among one another and with other members. A way of dealing with these questions is by means of the playfulness, which is, in the discourse practice of the PX group, a social functioning, since it is characterized as discourse regularity. The playfulness, result of plays of language, is our conducting wire, allowing us working with the following research question: what the playfulness of the truck drivers, in the practice of this group, can reveal/veil about them and about their condition in the society? We hypothesize that the playfulness indicates the truck drivers perform a self resistance, so it means the continuity of and in the way of life. We also hypothesize the playfulness, besides being a discourse functioning and discourse effect of the PX group practice, seems to be able to producing effects of symbolic resistance against the mourning in relation to hard aspects of the life conditions. We show, by investigation of the corpus, that the relation made by us between plays of language, playfulness and symbolic resistance seems to be according to a discourse play which makes functioning opposite meanings. We point out how this discourse play happens in the investigated cuttings, what were divided into themed cuttings: linguistic plays, laugh plays and musical voice plays. In this work, we are based on Pêcheux‟s Discourse Analysis, mainly in its third epoch, since this theory deals with the notion of discourse subject, social subject, who is the subject of the recurrence of and in the sayings, functioning according to a discourse practice. The truck driver who is a member of the PX group, by means of the playfulness functioning, is our discourse subject. Considering that the discourse practice of this group seems to provide a subjective way of existence to the truck drivers, we cogitate our work can contribute to the explanation of the importance of this practice to them. Therefore, this contribution, that can give visibility to the PX group, is related to the discussion we make concerning to the playfulness, result of plays of language produced by truck drivers via amateur radio, seeming to produce effects of symbolic resistance.