Silva, Marluce Pereira daPereira, Dione Marques Figueiredo Guedes2021-03-172021-03-172020-07-31PEREIRA, Dione Marques Figueiredo Guedes. Corporeidade, práticas discursivas e cuidado de si: a constituição de subjetividades de celebridades idosos(as) na mídia. 2020. 197f. Tese (Doutorado em Estudos da Linguagem) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2020.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/31911This researchaims at studying the constitution of subjectivities concerning elderly artists who are considered celebrities in the artistic scenery, arising from discursive practices in websites and electronic magazines, published from 2011 to 2020. The central issue of the research lies on the way celebrities use techniques of the self (FOUCAULT, 1991) in their statements, so as to build types of subjectivities that do not inscribe them either as decrepit individuals, doomed to social ostracism or to the condition of ―human refuse‖, as a way of contributing to their visibility after 60 years old. We aim, therefore, at analyzing the way subjectivities of elderly and elderly artists, with visibility in the media, are constituted from discursivities which are present in websites and electronic magazines, and whose production of meanings concerning the self technologies in the subjectivity construction. In addition, and in a more specific way, it aims at analyzing the way elderly artists report themselves, in their discursive positions conveyed by the media, the use of techniques of the self, aimed both at body aesthetics and at maintaining beauty standards when constituting their subjectivities; problematizing utterances in articles published in the media whose authors build professional subjectivities of elderly and elderly ―celebrities‖ and also interpreting meanings in the speeches of these celebrities who point out techniques of themselves in the construction of subjectivities that do not inscribe them as decrepit and doomed social ostracism or the condition of ―human refuse‖. The discursivities whichpass through the speeches of the interviews or in the opinion articles of the media were, thus, categorized on statements whose effects of meaning reflect the use of techniques aimed at self-care. As to the corpus, it consisted of speeches concerning 22 celebrities. This study, which is aligned to the Applied Linguistics area, configures itself as being of qualitative and interpretative nature, based on Foucault (2002a), Bauman (2015) and language theorists, with emphasis on the subjectivation mode, the art of self-care and corporeality (FOUCAULT, 2002a) and the notion of refuse (BAUMAN, 2015). As to the analysis, itshowed us discursiveness focused on practices of resistance to inclusion, in the condition of human refuse. Body care tends to refute aesthetic issues in detriment of the basic conditions for activity at work. Just like technologies of the self, body care is anchored in resistance based on self-government and used as social mobility instruments, and no longer as a condition for professional advancement, but as a guarantee of permanence concerning employment conditions.Acesso AbertoCorporeidadeEnvelhecimentoPráticas discursivasCuidado de siCelebridades idosasdoctoralThesis