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Who Is Odete Roitman's Killer? Speech and Power in Building Antagonist Characters

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Bruno Gomes Pereira

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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2023.11.001

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Universidade Anhanguera de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

ABSTRACT

The objective of this article is to analyze how soap opera actions are constructed that recombine around the figures of soap opera villains, especially the antagonist Odete Roitman, from the soap opera Vale Tudo (1988), shown by Rede Globo de Televisão, at that time from 21:00 pm. The theoretical foundation is based on the assumptions of French discourse analysis (DA), due to its intrinsic interdisciplinarity. The methodology is of the documentary type and of the Qualitative Approach, through which it favors the analysis of the discursive sphere of the speeches of the referred character. The selected data reveal a nuanced villain who, despite being mocking, cowardly, and Machiavellian, also has moments of humanization, which bring her closer to the viewer.

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discourse analysis, candies, soap opera

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US-China Foreign Language, November 2023, Vol. 21, No. 11, 431-436 doi:10.17265/1539-8080/2023.11.001

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