Mulheres jornalistas em site pornográfico: uma análise discursiva pelo viés da designação

Abstract

Pornography is a significant and contentious issue that has sparked numerous debates in a variety of domains, including public, political, economic, academic, and social. Research involving pornography is still scarce in the Brazilian academic-scientific context, and the topic lacks in-depth discussion. In 2019, we discovered on the pornographic website Xvideos the existence of videos of Brazilian female journalists in the exercise of their profession, made available on the platform as if they were pornographic materials. Based on this issue, the investigation sought to understand the meaning effects established by videos of professional journalists at work that are hosted on the pornographic site. The research is inserted into the field of Discourse Analysis of the materialist tradition affiliated with Michel Pêcheux (AD), but it is not limited only to this field. Through this work, we seek to make an approximation between AD and Pornography Studies (PE) of British and American theoretical currents to reflect on the established corpus. In this sense, the corpus of the investigation contains four videos that make up the discursive sequences analyzed and that were selected from the pornographic site Xvideos. The analysis was carried out by the designation bias, understood as a linguistic, ideological, and historical element. Considerations on the description and interpretation of the corpus indicate that the analyzed process is determined by a sexualizing discursive formation that materializes the female journalist's body as a commodity-body available for sale and consumption on the pornographic site.