The toxic mother under a linguistic-discursive and cognitivist perspective
International Journal of Development Research
The toxic mother under a linguistic-discursive and cognitivist perspective
Received 06th April, 2021; Received in revised form 11th May, 2021; Accepted 09th June, 2021; Published online 25th July, 2021
Copyright © 2021, CláudioMárcio do Carmo and Natália Elvira Sperandio. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This text, under a linguistic-discursive and cognitive approach (LAKOFF, 1987; GEE, 1999; LAKOFF; JOHNSON, 1980/2000; FAIRCLOUGH, 2001, CHARTERIS-BLACK, 2004; VEREZA, 2010; SPERANDIO, 2010, among others), aims to analyze the “toxic mother” metaphor concerning social family practices, as it differs from the archetypal form of mother, consolidated in common sense as the housewife, of unconditional love and unrestrained conduct (SCAVONI, 2001; CARMO, 2020). For this, we take as a starting point the metonymic and metaphorical cognitive models linked to the MOTHER, from which we then problematize socio- cultural issues and tensions surrounding the theme in an attempt to contribute both socially and theoretically to a broader understanding of the various elements involved when there is a breach of expectations and a rupture of naturalized models, perpetuated with no critical posture towards them.
