ABSTRACT
In this article, I present some reflections on the interactional positionings of sexuality and gender presented in one of the opinion articles on the blog Integra, created by students of a Federal Institute in the state of Minas Gerais, as well as identify the indexicality orders of sexuality and gender present in it. The theoretical scope uses the concepts of performative speech acts discussed by Austin ([1962] 1990)AUSTIN, J. L. (1962). Quando dizer é fazer. Trad: Danilo Marcondes de Souza Filho. Porto Alegre: Artes Médicas, 1990., Derrida (1973)DERRIDA, Jacques. (1973) Gramatologia. Trad. Miriam Schnaiderman e Renato J. Ribeiro. Perspectiva. and Butler (2003)BUTLER, J. (2003). Problemas de gênero: Feminismo e subversão da identidadeTradução de Renato Aguiar Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Civilização Brasileira, 2003., digital literacies proposed by Davies & Merchant (2009) and sexuality concepts and gender by queer theories (BUTLER, 2003BUTLER, J. (2003). Problemas de gênero: Feminismo e subversão da identidadeTradução de Renato Aguiar Rio de Janeiro, Ed. Civilização Brasileira, 2003.; LOURO, 2004LOURO, G. L. (2004). Um corpo estranho: ensaios sobre sexualidade e teoria queer Belo Horizonte: Autêntica .). In this sense, I undertook virtual ethnographic research (HINE, 2004HINE, C. (2004). Etnografía virtual Coleccíón Nuevas Tecnologías y Sociedad Barcelona, Editorial UOC.) and the data were generated from one of the opinion articles found on the blog. The analytical tools were based on interactional positionings proposed by Goffman ([1979], 1998)GOFFMAN, E. (1979) Footing. In: Ribeiro, Branca Telles; Garcez, Pedro N. (eds.) Sociolinguística interacional: antropologia, linguística e sociologia em análise do discurso. São Paulo: Loyola. 1998, 70-97. and the indexicality orders of Blommaert (2008BLOMMAERT, J. (2006). Social linguistics scales London: Working Papers Urban Language & Literacies.. The five indexical clues defined by Wortham (2001)WORTHAM, S. (2001). Narratives in action New York: Teacher College Press., the deictics and modalizations suggested by Bronckart (2007)BRONCKART, J.-P. (1999). Atividade de linguagem, textos e discursos: por um interacionismo sociodiscursivo Trad. Anna Raquel Machado e Péricles Cunha. 2. ed. São Paulo: EDUC, 2007. were used as analysis categories. I observed that interactional positionings presented in the texts are a blogger from a small town, who affirms he is gay and aware of his sexuality. Regarding indexicality orders, I showed that the blogger points to stratified patterns of meanings regarding norms and socio-cultural conventions over others, such as the country conservatism, the web as a helpful tool to gay relationship and the beautiful physical dictatorship in homoaffective relationships.
Keywords:
language as performance; queer theories; sexuality and gender; indexicality orders; interactional positionings