The Political Discourse of Habitat: Thoughts

Abstract

Habitat is conceived as a political phenomenon in this article, and politics moves within the institutional field created by it. This paper explores the linguistic dimension that connects such fields, since the concept of habitat is a semantic and rhetorical construction. The theories by Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu and Teun Van Dijk on this matter and their interconnection are hereby reviewed, making constant reference to habitat as a problem of discourse, and explaining the foundations that enable a political discourse analysis, with the purpose of illustrating a logic of domination.