Neymar and Tite: discursive-formations and subjectpositions in a discursive análisis

Abstract

The present paper promotes a discourse analysis of testimonials in two
videos available on Youtube and accessed on July 9, 2018, in which the coach Tite, from the subject-position of Corinthians’ coach and the position of Brazilian National soccer team coach appears issuing distinct statements about the "fall-off" effect of player Neymar. In this guideline, through the theoretical and analytical postulates of the French
Discourse Analysis (AD) approach, based on the studies of Pêcheux in Europe, of Orlandi in Brazil, and other scholars, performs a reading gesture to show how the same subject migrates of senses from the social place that enunciates, showing that subject and sense are mutually constituted. Thus, as defended by AD, this article shows that power is in
the place occupied by the subject of discourse, constituted by discursive formation, which determines what can and what should be said. Thus, it is intended to contribute to the expansion of research on sports discourse by analyzing these videos as discursive materialities that produce meaning and displacement effects, functioning as units of meaning that involve the subject, situation and memory.