Retratos de uma comunidade: a fiel corintiana e os vínculos comunicacionais

Resumo (EN)

The research aims to understand the significance of the communicational bonds for the constitution of communities taking as reference the supporters of Sport Club Corinthians. In this study we adopted the hypothesis that communication, understood in its anthropological and cultural dimension, has a great influence in the interaction among social groups. The phenomena of communication that are present in the soccer sceneries are vast and their results in the constitution of bonds, identities and communities are in particular the focus of this study. The supporters of Corinthians, known as “fiel torcida” (the loyal supporters), and the relation constituted with the club and the communicational aspects that improve and idealize the idea of an imagined community by creating rites, symbols and signs are the corpus of this study. To investigate the question, we examined two theoretical moments. The first one consists in the analysis of the concepts of communication, culture and bond and their relations established with the anthropological roots of the sport, according to the point of view of Contrera (2010), Huizinga (2000), Gerbauer (2000), Hillman (1999) and Franco Jr (2007). In a second moment, in the light of Todorov (1996) and Anderson (2008) theories, we will evaluate the construction of the meaning sense of the community bonds and its relation with the Corinthians supporters. We will evaluate the significance of the communicational bonds that improve the feeling of belonging in the “loyal” supporters of Corinthians.