FROM LANDLESS TO SETTLER: USE OF METAPHOR AND METONYMY IN RESETTLED DISCOURSES

Abstract

The rural context of the city of Castilho-SP is currently characterized by the legalization of thirteen settlements, of which the Celso Furtado Settlement, the second largest in the region, the locus of this research, brings together one hundred and eighty-seven families. With the goal of contributing to studies on identity and on the subject-settler, the article intends to problematize the representations that a resident of the settlement makes of herself when she was designated as landless, addressing metaphor and metonymy through the theoretical constructs carried out by Orlandi (2015) and Fiorin (2002). To discuss the considerations about subject and discourse, we based ourselves on the theoretical assumptions of Pêcheux (1990) and Foucault (2018); identity, in turn, is seen in the wake of Hall (2020) and Coracini (2007); concept of exclusion, we refer to the contributions of Bauman (1998) and Bhabha (1998). The work is inscribed in the discursive bias, based on the Foucaultian archaeogenealogical method, which aims to discuss how knowledge arises and how it is transformed. To collect the data, we conducted an audio recorded interview in the settlement itself, in which the settler answered the question: how did she see herself as a landless person? We observed that exclusion is manifested through the representations that the settler attributes to the current identity and the images that she believes society makes of her.