Discourse about children: the matter of ludicismo

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the way the discourse about children operates. It is based on the theoretical principles of French Discourse Analysis, on the tradition concocted by M. Pêcheux Notions such as child as a category and ludicismo were proposed in an attempt to understand the way the meanings of subject-child are constituted to make sense through the discourses that circulate in our society. The survey has indicated that the discourse about the child is traversed by a ludicismo that implies the relationships established with the legal sphere, concealing it through playing and game. Ludicismo is also characterized by a projection of the child’s future, the subject’s will-be.

Keywords

• Discurso sobre criança
• categoria
• ludicismo