ANÁLISE DIALÓGICA DE PALAVRAS DO TRABALHO DOS POLICIAIS FEDERAIS: DA (RE)CRIAÇÃO À DIVULGAÇÃO

Abstract

This paper analyses words used by Brazilian federal police officers for naming their work operations. Our basis is Bakhtin s dialogical discourse analysis (Bakhtin, 1997, 1998, 2003; Bakhtin/Volochínov, 2004), according to which the materiality of language is constitutively linked to an active and responsive intersubjective interaction and some theories about work activity, which takes as essential analyzing language for understanding human relations at the workplace (Boutet, 2001; Faïta, 2007; Nouroudine, 2002; Schwartz, 2007). The proposed analysis is based on the epistemological presupposition of dialogism as constitutive of all language expression, which allows examining how sense is constructed in sentences. Our main goal is the identification of dialogical relations present in words Brazilian federal police re(create) for naming their work operations in order to retrieve characteristics of Brazilian federal police activities and the way it is presented by the media. We analyze five terms naming operations that took place from 2006 to 2007: Leech (2006), Macunaíma (a literary Brazilian character - 2006), Hurricane (2007), Razor (2007) and Rodin (2007). The analysis considers simultaneously sphere of activity, genre and linguistic materiality and develops in two steps linked to two spheres of activity: the police sphere and the media sphere. In the first step, we present a brief description of what an Operation is. Besides retrieving police operations, the word that names each operation is analyzed considering Bakhtin s (2003) terms shared word , alien word and own word . In the second step, we describe the impact of operations on the media and examine the word/operation in a genre of Veja magazine and Zero Hora newspaper, considering both verbal and non-verbal aspects of enunciation. We observed that these designations receive on the media, as bivocal words, new accentuations, or evaluative intonations, many times adding to an effect of spectacularization. These words used for naming police work not only provide time economy but are also essential for maintaining the secrecy of Operations, and they are full of accentuations, which on the media resonate with a certain power