A música e a sua influência na vida de jovens e adolescentes envolvidos no projeto Superhação : uma análise crítica do discurso

Abstract

This dissertation presents the result of a study about music and its influence in the life of youth and adolescents who are involved on the SUPERHAÇÃO Project, which aims preventing drug use and has been running at the public school Mario Spinelli in Sorriso, Mato Grosso State. The research sought to comprehend the identificacional meaning through the modality and evaluation categories that are present in the statements of youth and adolescents within a context of violence, alcoholism and drug use. The methodology was based on a qualitative and quantitative nature of research and used the application of questionnaires and interviews. The theoretical framework is based on the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), defended by Norman Fairclough (2001, 2003a); and on the Systemic-Functional Linguistic from Halliday (1994), that, under an identity perspective in postmodernity, discussed in Stuart Hall (2006), Manuel Castells (1999), Moita Lopes (2003) and Zygmunt Bauman (2001), served to support the analysis made here. The results extol the importance of SUPERHAÇÃO Project to the adolescents and evidence a great connection between them and the music. The results also show that music in English has taken on increasingly significant place in their lives, which explains the obvious emotional relationship and students’ strong will that music be present in English class. Thus, in a critical and emancipatory view, the musical practice on youth and adolescents lives become a tool to work drug use prevention, for it may be a place for reflective discussions that reach deeper aspects of the human character of each individual, acting directly on elements of their identity, and is indicated as a potential mechanism to face social adversity.