Joana Plaza Pinto
List of John Benjamins publications in which Joana Plaza Pinto is involved.
Articles
2017 Chapter 7. On languages, bodies and epistemic violence Language and Violence: Pragmatic perspectives, Silva, Daniel N. (ed.), pp. 171–188 | Chapter
This paper discusses the articulations between the differentiations of bodies and the invention of languages. As post-colonial and decolonial authors and feminist authors point out, in spite of their central role in the construction and classification of languages, bodies tend to become invisible… read more
2015 Trajectories of the black female body in Brazil: Circulations of racist and antiracist representations on a TV show Circulating Signs and People: Politics, affect, ethnography, Silva, Daniel N. (ed.), pp. 197–216 | Article
In this paper, I offer a situated perspective on the political and semiotic landscapes of the circulation of racist and antiracist images and texts in and around a dark-skinned female character, Adelaide, in the popular Brazilian TV show Zorra Total. I aim to differ and defer the character as a… read more