Entre ciência e barbárie: análise crítica e dialógica dos interdiscursos no mangá Dr. Stone

Rodrigo Sérgio Ferreira de Paiva; Dario Brito Rocha Jr.; Moab Duarte Acioli

doi:10.25189/rabralin.v24i1.2326

Between science and barbarism: critical and dialogical analysis of inter-discourses in the manga Dr. Stone

Mr. Rodrigo Sérgio Ferreira de Paiva,

Dr. Dario Brito Rocha Jr.,

Dr. Moab Duarte Acioli

V. 24, N.1 (2025)
Submitted: Jun 9, 2025
Published: Jul 8, 2026
DOI 10.25189/rabralin.v24i1.2326

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Abstract

This article aims to critically analyze the interdiscourses present in the manga Dr. Stone (2018–2020), based on the frameworks of Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough), Bakhtinian dialogism, and Foucault's archeogenealogy. The investigation focuses on the symbolic opposition between the characters Senku and Tsukasa, articulating discourses on science, morality, and power. The methodology involves the analysis of verbal and visual excerpts from volumes 1 to 9 of the Brazilian edition, following Fairclough’s analytical triad (textual, discursive, and sociocultural practices), and supported by the concepts of polyphony, discursive formations, and regimes of truth. The results indicate that the graphic narrative functions as a polyphonic discursive arena where different social voices dispute symbolic hegemony. It is observed that science, although portrayed as emancipatory, also operates as a regime of truth and a mechanism of ideological control. The study reaffirms the critical potential of contemporary graphic narratives as privileged spaces for the circulation and contestation of ideologies in the age of post-truth. This study combines Dialogic Discourse Analysis and Peircean semiotics to examine the ideological clashes in Dr. Stone, focusing on the effects of meaning produced by the opposition between science, power, and morality.

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Authorship

Mr. Rodrigo Sérgio Ferreira de Paiva

CAPES/PROSUC scholarship holder in the Doctoral Program in Language Sciences (PPGCL) at the Catholic University of Pernambuco (Recife - PE). Finalist for the Academic Jabuti Award (2024), in the Communication and Information category and winner of the Intercom Student Awards in the Professional Master's category (2) with the book Os donos da rua: representatividade racial e as transformações do protagonismo negro no universo da Turma da Mônica (2023). Master in Creative Industries and specialist in Creative Writing at UNICAP (2022). Advertising graduate with academic honors from UNICAP in Social Communication with a specialization in Advertising and Propaganda. He interned at the Ministerial Advisory for Social Communication of the MPPE - Public Ministry of Pernambuco in 2018. He worked as a Marketing Consultant at Netcon Americas (2019) and as a graphic designer at Apet Associação Paulista de Estudos Tributários (2020). Author of the book Panther is the New Black: Representation and Culture in Communication from the Black Panther film published by Simplíssimo. He has published articles in Intercom Júnior, GP Produção Editorial (2020/2021), Paradoxos Magazine (2020), Iniciacom Magazine (2021), Caderno de Letras Magazine (2021), Liinc em Revista (2021), Brazilian Creative Industries Journal (2022), among others. National winner of the Expocom award (2018) in the Game Script category and regional winner of Expocom Nordeste (2019) in the Promotional Planning category. He did an internship in teaching in the Social Communication courses with a specialization in Advertising and Propaganda and Letters at UNICAP (2020/2024). He is currently studying for a degree in Letters from Uniplena Educacional.

Universidade Católica de Pernambuco

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9168-9904

Dr. Dario Brito Rocha Jr.

He is currently Assistant Professor IV at the Catholic University of Pernambuco (Unicap) and is a faculty member of the Postgraduate Program in Creative Industries (PPGIC) and also of the Postgraduate Program in Language Sciences (PPGCL). He also teaches undergraduate courses in Journalism, Digital Games and Advertising at the School of Communication at Unicap. He is the leader of the Createch research group Technologies Applied to the Development of Solutions and Products in Communication and Creative Industries, certified by Unicap in the Directory of Research Groups (CNPq). He has a degree in Social Communication - Specialization in Journalism from the Catholic University of Pernambuco (2001), a master's degree in Letters/Linguistics from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2005) and a PhD in Information Design from the Federal University of Pernambuco (2017). He worked at Jornal do Commercio (PE) for ten years, holding positions as reporter, senior reporter, assistant columnist and assistant editor. He has experience in the area of Communication, with an emphasis on Journalism and Publishing, working in teaching, research and extension mainly in the following themes: transmedia storytelling, language, support, publishing and DRR communication.

Universidade Católica de Pernambuco

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1515-1720

Dr. Moab Duarte Acioli

Graduated in Medicine from the Federal University of Pernambuco (1983). Specialist in Psychiatry from the Federal University of Pernambuco (1986). Master in Cultural Anthropology from the Federal University of Pernambuco (1990). PhD in Public Health from the State University of Campinas (2001). Works as Adjunct Professor II at the Catholic University of Pernambuco, in the Medicine Course of the Center for Biological and Health Sciences. Professor, researcher and advisor of the Master's and Doctorate in Language Sciences at the Catholic University of Pernambuco. Lines of research: Critical Discourse Analysis and Linguistic Anthropology. Member of the Ethics Committee of the Catholic University of Pernambuco. Member of the Structuring Teaching Nucleus of the Medicine Course at the Catholic University of Pernambuco. Professor, advisor and preceptor of the Residency in Mental Health at the University of Pernambuco. Presents oral communications and participates in panels, round tables in regional, national and international scientific meetings. Author of technical reports, scientific articles, book chapters and book organizer. Has been developing research with undergraduate and graduate students around an interdisciplinary field involving Health Anthropology, Public Health, Mental Health, Psychopathology and Language.

Universidade Católica de Pernambuco

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2404-7634