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73017395 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code P&bns 279 Eb 15 9789027265227 06 10.1075/pbns.279 13 2017039833 DG 002 02 01 P&bns 02 0922-842X Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 279 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Language and Violence</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Pragmatic perspectives</Subtitle> 01 pbns.279 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.279 1 B01 Daniel N. Silva Silva, Daniel N. Daniel N. Silva Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 01 eng 256 vi 250 LAN009030 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SOCIO Sociolinguistics and Dialectology 06 01 This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language. How do words wound? What is the relation between physical and linguistic violence? How do racial invectives, misogynous language, homophobic slurs, among other forms of hate speech, affect the body and make us vulnerable to conditions of injurability that language brings about? While investigating the limits that violence poses for everyday speech action, understanding, representation, and our shared frameworks of intelligibility, this collective volume theoretically bridges knowledge from canons in linguistic pragmatics, continental philosophy and linguistic/semiotic anthropology and the dialogic perspective of subjects who are located in the peripheries of South America and Europe. The scholarship gathered here intends to offer a perspective on the violence of words that is attentive to practices and sensibilities that do not always fit into hegemonic ideologies of self and language. 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/pbns.279.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027256843.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027256843.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/pbns.279.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/pbns.279.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/pbns.279.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/pbns.279.hb.png 10 01 JB code pbns.279.01sil 1 30 30 Chapter 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Investigating violence in language</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">An introduction</Subtitle> 1 A01 Daniel N. Silva Silva, Daniel N. Daniel N. Silva 10 01 JB code pbns.279.p1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part&#160;I. The language of violence</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Conflict, policing, frontiers</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code pbns.279.02tad 33 56 24 Chapter 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;1. The invention of violence</TitleText> 1 A01 Renzo Taddei Taddei, Renzo Renzo Taddei 01 This chapter presents and analyzes ethnographic data collected in Buenos Aires among soccer fans that are taken to behave in violent ways. The analysis addresses the relationship between fans and the police force. Using the theoretical framework proposed by Roy Wagner in <i>The Invention of Culture</i>, this text suggests that, with their single-minded focus on order and control, the police project the image of unruliness and resistance to police authority upon the soccer fans, which, in turn, induces the police to neurotically escalate and use violence. The fans, on the other hand, focus on heroic deeds and &#8220;protagonism&#8221; as part of their processes of individualization, and see the police force as an impediment to achieving their goals, which then leads them to act more energetically &#8211; hysterically &#8211; in their usual fandom activities. Neurosis and hysteria are used in specific ways, as shall be defined in the text. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.03gal 57 78 22 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;2. Voice and silence in the suburbs of S&#227;o Paulo</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">State, community and the meanings of violence</Subtitle> 1 A01 Ana Paula Galdeano Galdeano, Ana Paula Ana Paula Galdeano 01 In the city of S&#227;o Paulo the &#8220;world of crime&#8221; has grown and become just another organizing category of social life. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the meanings of violence in this new context. Using ethnographical studies that were carried out in a public sphere in which police officers, residents and representatives of local institutions talk about insecurity and the &#8220;perpetrators&#8221; of violence, this article discusses the speech acts and the silences that emerge from these meetings. The study highlights that not only order but also conflict are present when we talk about violence. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.04gol 79 104 26 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;3. From the side of the road to the borders of the page</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Mapping the legibility of people and words at the margins</Subtitle> 1 A01 Ruth Goldstein Goldstein, Ruth Ruth Goldstein 01 Latin America&#8217;s Inter-Oceanic Road runs some 5800 kilometers from Peru&#8217;s Pacific coast to Brazil&#8217;s Atlantic coast. It is Latin America&#8217;s newest and longest East-West thoroughfare, a transnational development project involving Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and international sponsors. The road changes the social, political, and economic landscape &#8211; cutting through indigenous land in the Peruvian Andes as well as the Peruvian, Brazilian, and Bolivian Amazon. It traverses the analytical and linguistic terrain upon which international governing bodies construct and maintain human rights laws. Among the many people and things traveling along the road are men searching for menial jobs and women destined for the sex-trade. The wording of evolving human rights discourse concerning trafficked persons includes as it excludes, leaving many women who cross borders living in the interstices of society. In these &#8220;zones of abandonment&#8221; (Biehl 2005) or zones of &#8220;non-being&#8221; (Fanon 1967) women have no documentation of their existence, may not speak (any of) the (new) country&#8217;s language(s), and more often than not, do not know how to read and write. Often, but not always, these men and women are left without a voice, that is to say, without the right words with which to articulate and protect themselves. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.p2 Section header 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part&#160;II. The violence of language</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Hate speech, speech act, injuries</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code pbns.279.05sil 107 124 18 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;4. The circulation of violence in discourse</TitleText> 1 A01 Daniel N. Silva Silva, Daniel N. Daniel N. Silva 01 This paper examines two hypotheses concerning the relationship between language and violence. (1) Language does not merely represent violence, but enacts its own type of violence. (2) The use of violent language participates in the demarcation of political and subjective viability in the public sphere. I argue that these hypotheses are true to the extent that discourse circulates. I elaborate on two models of discourse circulation: <i>iterability</i>, a concept that Jacques Derrida proposed and that Judith Butler borrows in her understanding of the performativity of hate speech, and <i>communicability</i>, an anthropological concept devised by Charles Briggs to envision the complex infectious character of modern discourses. This paper also looks at the communicability of violent discourse in Brazilian contemporary political life. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.06san 125 140 16 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;5. Racist speech as a linguistic discriminatory practice in Brazil</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Between the speech act&#8217;s reference and effects</Subtitle> 1 A01 Karla Cristina dos Santos Allen Santos Allen, Karla Cristina dos Karla Cristina dos Santos Allen 01 Brazilian law establishes a difference between the aggravated verbal injury, which is a type of insult that makes use of words or phrases pertaining to race, color, ethnicity, religion, origin or to the condition of the elderly or disabled person, and the crime of prejudice or discrimination, which consists in practicing, inducing or inciting discrimination or prejudice based on race, color, ethnicity, religion or national origin. In this paper I intend to investigate the linguistic criteria used by the judicial system to distinguish the two crimes. Based on a survey of data on legal cases of verbal injury and on interviews with two black Brazilian activists, I also intend to demonstrate the limitation of these criteria. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.07lee 141 168 28 Chapter 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;6. Free speech, hate speech, and hate beards</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Language ideologies of Dutch populism</Subtitle> 1 A01 Michiel Leezenberg Leezenberg, Michiel Michiel Leezenberg 01 This paper explores the discourse and verbal strategies of the Dutch &#8216;Freedom Party&#8217; (PVV), an islamophobic populist party that emerged in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In particular, it focuses on the linguistic ideologies implicit in PVV discourse, arguing that PVV spokespersons systematically construe their own utterances as mere words, and hence as deserving state protection; and the utterances of others as acts, and more specifically as acts of violence, deserving repression or prosecution. This asymmetric linguistic ideology may help us to explore empirical and normative questions concerning violence in language. In particular, the question of violence and responsibility is discussed on the basis of Norwegian Anders Breivik&#8217;s 2011 murderous assault on Norwegian social democrats, which explicitly appealed to PVV leader Wilders and his views on Islam. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.p3 Section header 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part&#160;III. The intersections of violence, bodies and languages</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Epistemology, narrative, corporealities</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code pbns.279.08pin 171 188 18 Chapter 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;7. On languages, bodies and epistemic violence</TitleText> 1 A01 Joana Plaza Pinto Pinto, Joana Plaza Joana Plaza Pinto 01 This paper discusses the articulations between the differentiations of bodies and the invention of languages. As post-colonial and decolonial authors and feminist authors point out, in spite of their central role in the construction and classification of languages, bodies tend to become invisible in the scholarship. To explore this intersection between scholarship on language and bodies, this paper argues that (1) there are two fields of contemporary studies that can account for the junction of differentiations of bodies and the differentiations of languages, namely feminist studies on intersectionality and studies on metapragmatics and metadiscursive regimes about languages; and (2) epistemic violence is the best category to explain some perverse consequences of this junction, since appropriation and effacement work together to invent <i>languageless</i> differences. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.09lew 189 226 38 Chapter 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;8. Queering violence and narrative</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Voices from a marginalized community</Subtitle> 1 A01 Elizabeth Sara Lewis Lewis, Elizabeth Sara Elizabeth Sara Lewis 2 A01 Liliana Cabral Bastos Bastos, Liliana Cabral Liliana Cabral Bastos 01 This chapter argues that it is useful to take a queer stance on studying narratives about violence in marginalized communities, considering &#8220;queer&#8221; a position countering <i>any</i> type of normalization that produces stigmatized margins (Halperin 1995; Louro 2004), not limited to gender and sexuality. Normative, marginalizing discourses, (re)produced by the media, &#8220;the talk of crime&#8221; (Caldeira 2000) and hate speech (Butler 1997) tend to characterize Brazilian <i>favelas</i> as dangerous places filled with violent criminals, homogenizing and further stigmatizing their residents (Kokoreff 2003; Valladares 2005). We examine how experiences of violence and daily life are constructed in adolescent <i>favela</i> residents&#8217; narratives, focusing on how they destabilize certain aspects of the normative, marginalizing and homogenizing discourses of the media, and how violence and narrative itself are queered in their constructions. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.10bia 227 248 22 Chapter 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;9. Discursive constructions of deviance in the narratives of a prison inmate</TitleText> 1 A01 Liana de Andrade Biar de Andrade Biar, Liana Liana de Andrade Biar 01 This chapter aims at identifying a specific type of discourse about violence: the stories of adherence to drug trafficking, their emergence in the research context and the processes of identity construction resulting from said context. The data comes from fieldwork done during 2009 in one of the main prison institutions in Brazil. Interviews were realized with inmate members of Rio de Janeiro criminal gangs who attended the prison school. These interviews were then qualitatively analyzed, from a micro-perspective approach, in light both of studies on oral narratives, based on interactional sociolinguistics, and of identity studies, especially those which consider narrative discourse as a privileged locus for social identity construction and analysis. From the analysis of the narratives&#8217; structure systems of coherence, it was possible to understand the way in which inmates neutralize the force of values and of accepting order so as to give new meaning to deviant actions, as being pleasant or respectable. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.index 249 250 2 Miscellaneous 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20171109 2017 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027256843 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 95.00 EUR R 01 00 80.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 143.00 USD S 141017394 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code P&bns 279 Hb 15 9789027256843 13 2017018297 BB 01 P&bns 02 0922-842X Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 279 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Language and Violence</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Pragmatic perspectives</Subtitle> 01 pbns.279 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.279 1 B01 Daniel N. Silva Silva, Daniel N. Daniel N. Silva Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 01 eng 256 vi 250 LAN009030 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.SOCIO Sociolinguistics and Dialectology 06 01 This book combines scholarship in pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and philosophy to address the problem of violence in language. How do words wound? What is the relation between physical and linguistic violence? How do racial invectives, misogynous language, homophobic slurs, among other forms of hate speech, affect the body and make us vulnerable to conditions of injurability that language brings about? While investigating the limits that violence poses for everyday speech action, understanding, representation, and our shared frameworks of intelligibility, this collective volume theoretically bridges knowledge from canons in linguistic pragmatics, continental philosophy and linguistic/semiotic anthropology and the dialogic perspective of subjects who are located in the peripheries of South America and Europe. The scholarship gathered here intends to offer a perspective on the violence of words that is attentive to practices and sensibilities that do not always fit into hegemonic ideologies of self and language. 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/pbns.279.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027256843.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027256843.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/pbns.279.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/pbns.279.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/pbns.279.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/pbns.279.hb.png 10 01 JB code pbns.279.01sil 1 30 30 Chapter 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Investigating violence in language</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">An introduction</Subtitle> 1 A01 Daniel N. Silva Silva, Daniel N. Daniel N. Silva 10 01 JB code pbns.279.p1 Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part&#160;I. The language of violence</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Conflict, policing, frontiers</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code pbns.279.02tad 33 56 24 Chapter 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;1. The invention of violence</TitleText> 1 A01 Renzo Taddei Taddei, Renzo Renzo Taddei 01 This chapter presents and analyzes ethnographic data collected in Buenos Aires among soccer fans that are taken to behave in violent ways. The analysis addresses the relationship between fans and the police force. Using the theoretical framework proposed by Roy Wagner in <i>The Invention of Culture</i>, this text suggests that, with their single-minded focus on order and control, the police project the image of unruliness and resistance to police authority upon the soccer fans, which, in turn, induces the police to neurotically escalate and use violence. The fans, on the other hand, focus on heroic deeds and &#8220;protagonism&#8221; as part of their processes of individualization, and see the police force as an impediment to achieving their goals, which then leads them to act more energetically &#8211; hysterically &#8211; in their usual fandom activities. Neurosis and hysteria are used in specific ways, as shall be defined in the text. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.03gal 57 78 22 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;2. Voice and silence in the suburbs of S&#227;o Paulo</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">State, community and the meanings of violence</Subtitle> 1 A01 Ana Paula Galdeano Galdeano, Ana Paula Ana Paula Galdeano 01 In the city of S&#227;o Paulo the &#8220;world of crime&#8221; has grown and become just another organizing category of social life. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the meanings of violence in this new context. Using ethnographical studies that were carried out in a public sphere in which police officers, residents and representatives of local institutions talk about insecurity and the &#8220;perpetrators&#8221; of violence, this article discusses the speech acts and the silences that emerge from these meetings. The study highlights that not only order but also conflict are present when we talk about violence. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.04gol 79 104 26 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;3. From the side of the road to the borders of the page</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Mapping the legibility of people and words at the margins</Subtitle> 1 A01 Ruth Goldstein Goldstein, Ruth Ruth Goldstein 01 Latin America&#8217;s Inter-Oceanic Road runs some 5800 kilometers from Peru&#8217;s Pacific coast to Brazil&#8217;s Atlantic coast. It is Latin America&#8217;s newest and longest East-West thoroughfare, a transnational development project involving Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, and international sponsors. The road changes the social, political, and economic landscape &#8211; cutting through indigenous land in the Peruvian Andes as well as the Peruvian, Brazilian, and Bolivian Amazon. It traverses the analytical and linguistic terrain upon which international governing bodies construct and maintain human rights laws. Among the many people and things traveling along the road are men searching for menial jobs and women destined for the sex-trade. The wording of evolving human rights discourse concerning trafficked persons includes as it excludes, leaving many women who cross borders living in the interstices of society. In these &#8220;zones of abandonment&#8221; (Biehl 2005) or zones of &#8220;non-being&#8221; (Fanon 1967) women have no documentation of their existence, may not speak (any of) the (new) country&#8217;s language(s), and more often than not, do not know how to read and write. Often, but not always, these men and women are left without a voice, that is to say, without the right words with which to articulate and protect themselves. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.p2 Section header 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part&#160;II. The violence of language</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Hate speech, speech act, injuries</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code pbns.279.05sil 107 124 18 Chapter 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;4. The circulation of violence in discourse</TitleText> 1 A01 Daniel N. Silva Silva, Daniel N. Daniel N. Silva 01 This paper examines two hypotheses concerning the relationship between language and violence. (1) Language does not merely represent violence, but enacts its own type of violence. (2) The use of violent language participates in the demarcation of political and subjective viability in the public sphere. I argue that these hypotheses are true to the extent that discourse circulates. I elaborate on two models of discourse circulation: <i>iterability</i>, a concept that Jacques Derrida proposed and that Judith Butler borrows in her understanding of the performativity of hate speech, and <i>communicability</i>, an anthropological concept devised by Charles Briggs to envision the complex infectious character of modern discourses. This paper also looks at the communicability of violent discourse in Brazilian contemporary political life. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.06san 125 140 16 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;5. Racist speech as a linguistic discriminatory practice in Brazil</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Between the speech act&#8217;s reference and effects</Subtitle> 1 A01 Karla Cristina dos Santos Allen Santos Allen, Karla Cristina dos Karla Cristina dos Santos Allen 01 Brazilian law establishes a difference between the aggravated verbal injury, which is a type of insult that makes use of words or phrases pertaining to race, color, ethnicity, religion, origin or to the condition of the elderly or disabled person, and the crime of prejudice or discrimination, which consists in practicing, inducing or inciting discrimination or prejudice based on race, color, ethnicity, religion or national origin. In this paper I intend to investigate the linguistic criteria used by the judicial system to distinguish the two crimes. Based on a survey of data on legal cases of verbal injury and on interviews with two black Brazilian activists, I also intend to demonstrate the limitation of these criteria. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.07lee 141 168 28 Chapter 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;6. Free speech, hate speech, and hate beards</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Language ideologies of Dutch populism</Subtitle> 1 A01 Michiel Leezenberg Leezenberg, Michiel Michiel Leezenberg 01 This paper explores the discourse and verbal strategies of the Dutch &#8216;Freedom Party&#8217; (PVV), an islamophobic populist party that emerged in the first decade of the twenty-first century. In particular, it focuses on the linguistic ideologies implicit in PVV discourse, arguing that PVV spokespersons systematically construe their own utterances as mere words, and hence as deserving state protection; and the utterances of others as acts, and more specifically as acts of violence, deserving repression or prosecution. This asymmetric linguistic ideology may help us to explore empirical and normative questions concerning violence in language. In particular, the question of violence and responsibility is discussed on the basis of Norwegian Anders Breivik&#8217;s 2011 murderous assault on Norwegian social democrats, which explicitly appealed to PVV leader Wilders and his views on Islam. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.p3 Section header 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part&#160;III. The intersections of violence, bodies and languages</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Epistemology, narrative, corporealities</Subtitle> 10 01 JB code pbns.279.08pin 171 188 18 Chapter 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;7. On languages, bodies and epistemic violence</TitleText> 1 A01 Joana Plaza Pinto Pinto, Joana Plaza Joana Plaza Pinto 01 This paper discusses the articulations between the differentiations of bodies and the invention of languages. As post-colonial and decolonial authors and feminist authors point out, in spite of their central role in the construction and classification of languages, bodies tend to become invisible in the scholarship. To explore this intersection between scholarship on language and bodies, this paper argues that (1) there are two fields of contemporary studies that can account for the junction of differentiations of bodies and the differentiations of languages, namely feminist studies on intersectionality and studies on metapragmatics and metadiscursive regimes about languages; and (2) epistemic violence is the best category to explain some perverse consequences of this junction, since appropriation and effacement work together to invent <i>languageless</i> differences. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.09lew 189 226 38 Chapter 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;8. Queering violence and narrative</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Voices from a marginalized community</Subtitle> 1 A01 Elizabeth Sara Lewis Lewis, Elizabeth Sara Elizabeth Sara Lewis 2 A01 Liliana Cabral Bastos Bastos, Liliana Cabral Liliana Cabral Bastos 01 This chapter argues that it is useful to take a queer stance on studying narratives about violence in marginalized communities, considering &#8220;queer&#8221; a position countering <i>any</i> type of normalization that produces stigmatized margins (Halperin 1995; Louro 2004), not limited to gender and sexuality. Normative, marginalizing discourses, (re)produced by the media, &#8220;the talk of crime&#8221; (Caldeira 2000) and hate speech (Butler 1997) tend to characterize Brazilian <i>favelas</i> as dangerous places filled with violent criminals, homogenizing and further stigmatizing their residents (Kokoreff 2003; Valladares 2005). We examine how experiences of violence and daily life are constructed in adolescent <i>favela</i> residents&#8217; narratives, focusing on how they destabilize certain aspects of the normative, marginalizing and homogenizing discourses of the media, and how violence and narrative itself are queered in their constructions. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.10bia 227 248 22 Chapter 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Chapter&#160;9. Discursive constructions of deviance in the narratives of a prison inmate</TitleText> 1 A01 Liana de Andrade Biar de Andrade Biar, Liana Liana de Andrade Biar 01 This chapter aims at identifying a specific type of discourse about violence: the stories of adherence to drug trafficking, their emergence in the research context and the processes of identity construction resulting from said context. The data comes from fieldwork done during 2009 in one of the main prison institutions in Brazil. Interviews were realized with inmate members of Rio de Janeiro criminal gangs who attended the prison school. These interviews were then qualitatively analyzed, from a micro-perspective approach, in light both of studies on oral narratives, based on interactional sociolinguistics, and of identity studies, especially those which consider narrative discourse as a privileged locus for social identity construction and analysis. From the analysis of the narratives&#8217; structure systems of coherence, it was possible to understand the way in which inmates neutralize the force of values and of accepting order so as to give new meaning to deviant actions, as being pleasant or respectable. 10 01 JB code pbns.279.index 249 250 2 Miscellaneous 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20171109 2017 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 08 595 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 26 24 01 02 JB 1 00 95.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 100.70 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 24 02 02 JB 1 00 80.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 1 24 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 143.00 USD