Heróis da mídia na voz das crianças

efeitos de sentido sobre/da infância

Abstract

In the light of discourse analysis in the French tradition and psychoanalysis, we discuss how the hero figure is constructed in children´s narratives. Starting from an experience of telling and listening to children´s stories, we observed that there is a discursive memory supported by language actions, presented by the media (mainly televised and electronic) and recurrently found in myths, fairy tales and fables, which either contribute to maintain certain meanings or to break with them. Being like this, the acts of speaking and listening of these children may show ways of talking about themselves through the processes of identification and projection of the heroes they choose for each one, and so constituting different forms of positioning regarding their own selves and social relations, either by reproducing stabilized discourses, breaking with them, or making them real.