Televisão e espetáculo: o talk show Casos de família

Abstract

This article aims to discuss, from the theoretical and methodological perspective of pecheutian Discourse Analysis, how the visibility that the talk show "Casos de Família" ("Family Cases") provides its guests converts their statements into spectacles, by which the exposure is justified in itself. By means of analysis of the episode themed as "Teenage pregnancy", it is evidenced how participants produce discourses that are identified with dominant discursive formations, but which at several occasions - when the eruption of the real experiences in their lives emérges as a happening in their statements - shift into other discursive formations, opening up to polyphony. However, the reactions ofboth the host and audience control the dispersion, indicating which meanings are allowed to be produced within that context, these being in accordance with a dominant and common-sense ideology. The result is a closure of meanings, in a continuous production of the sarne, a repetition.