The violence in the discourse of the student of the “slum”

Abstract

This article focuses on the discourses of students of third cycle (equivalent to the eightth grade) of a municipal school in Porto Alegre. There are texts about violence, written based on the brazilian movie Tropa de Elite, 2007, that highlights the theme violence, showing the traffic conflict with brazilian police in the hills of Rio de Janeiro city. Discursive sequences about the violence of the traffic and the police are analyzed in the movie and in the students’ texts, in order to verify similarities and differences between the discourses, and to describe the discursive formation which the students identify themselves and from which they write their texts.