“What time is it?”: critical discursive analysis behind culpable rape

Abstract

This work aims to promote a critical discursive analysis around the expression "culpable rape", whose emergence is related to the controversy over the trial and sentence, in 2020, of the rape case of the young promoter from Santa Catarina, Mariana Ferrer, at a party in 2018. In order to enable such an analysis, it was considered to have as methodology the line of study and analysis proposed by Rita Von Hunty (2019) - “What time is it?” - and the Critical Discourse Analysis of the English line, developed by Norman Fairclough, through authors such as Vieira and Macedo (2018) and Bessa and Borges Sato (2018). Throughout the study, we sought to highlight the interdiscursivity behind the expression, the latest highlighted news about rape, the historical importance of the feminist movement, the inversion of values originated from the ideology of the conservative patriarchal society; bearing in mind, finally, to raise awareness of the need to fight against all this hegemonic ideological line, which disseminates sexism, in addition to other discriminatory and prejudiced practices.