On Incompatibility and Estrangement: Christphobia Utterance and the Scales of Meaning in Online Cartoons

• Autor(a) principal: Cavalcanti Falcão, Carolina
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Bakhtiniana
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/63356
• topic: Cristofobia; Enunciado; Análise Dialógica; Religião; Alteridade; Christphobia; Utterance; Dialogical Analysis; Religion; Otherness

In this article, I propose a dialogical analysis of five online cartoons which reverberate the discourse of the former president of Brazil (2019-2022) at the UN in September 2020, when he called the international community to combat Christphobia. Named after the same term, the cartoons present a framework of interdiscursive antagonism between Christian and the former President of Brazil’s fanatic followers’ positions. Assuming that cartoons are a privileged discursive genre for understanding the dialogical resonances between interlocutors and discourses, this work approaches Christphobia as a responsive utterance in terms of scales of meaning. From the analysis, one can see a discursive game of incompatibility and estrangement, that makes room to a Christophobic “Other” in opposition to a persecuted “minority us,” as once presented during the UN discourse. There is an emphasis on a perception of religious intolerance as a result of the political agenda of the former president of Brazil’s religious-ideological alignment.