Banca de DEFESA: MANUELLY VITÓRIA DE SOUZA FREIRE XAVIER

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MANUELLY VITÓRIA DE SOUZA FREIRE XAVIER
DATE: 05/05/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: google meet
TITLE:

Processes of Multisemiotic Dialogization and Meaning Construction in Digital Magazine Covers During the Pandemic: A Bakhtinian Perspective

KEY WORDS:

Palavras-chave em inglês: Multisemiotic dialogization. Meaning production. Digital magazine covers. Pandemic chronotope. Informativeness.

PAGES: 232
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUMMARY:

1. RESUMO EM INGLÊS:

This doctoral thesis addresses the topic of multisemiotic, or multimodal, language as disseminated in the journalistic discourse genre of digital magazine covers produced during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly within the time frame comprising the years 2020 and 2021. Bakhtin’s Dialogic Discourse Analysis is the theoretical framework that underpins this entire language investigation, constituted by utterances shaped in the pandemic chronotope and manifested by the editorial voice on magazine covers, since we understand that human historicity is the effervescence, beyond intrinsic, guiding the development of all its discourses, whether verbal or not. The study aims to understand, in general, how multisemiotic utterances are constructed on digital magazine covers in relation to the purpose of communication intended by their creators within the pandemic chronotope. After extensive searches through official digital magazine publication sites, various publishers, and the Google search tool, we cataloged 22 covers created between 2020 and 2021. Six examples of digital magazine covers were selected: one published by Exame magazine (2020), followed by Metrópoli magazine (2020), then Superinteressante magazine (2020), concluding the 2020 time frame; continuing, the cover of National Geographic magazine (2021), and finally, two covers from Veja magazine, both published in 2021, thus constituting the corpus of this research. The selection criteria were based on the thematic criterion of the Covid-19 pandemic and the chronological criterion to mark different temporal moments of the pandemic chronotope. The research adopts a qualitative and interpretive methodological approach; it falls within the Applied Linguistics area, under the line of research of Discursive Practices. The theoretical framework is Bakhtin and his Circle, within the discussions of the project of saying, dialogic-communicative intentionality, meaning effects, expressive intonation, and informativeness. Data analysis enabled the understanding that, although the digital covers were constructed almost within the same pandemic chronotope time frame, through their discursive signs, both verbal and non-verbal, they analogously present discursive clashes, convergences, proximities, distances, responsivities, dialogisms, and multiple refractions among their multisemiotic utterances. They also revealed, sometimes subtly, sometimes explicitly, a manifestation of global meaning, which guided the individual interpretability for each of the six categories of analyses, namely: global catastrophe; aestheticization of everyday life; scientific rationality; discursive ambivalence; resigned realism; and, finally, motivating transition. These six distinct categories thus allow the perception of a manifestation of epistemological intelligibilities in a robust media discourse genre and offer investigative possibilities in the areas of Communication language, Design, and Human Language Studies, from scientific research perspectives aligned with other theoretical frameworks.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2211871 - RENATA ARCHANJO
Externa ao Programa - 1728675 - GIANKA SALUSTIANO BEZERRIL DE BASTOS GOMES - UFRNExterno ao Programa - 3943432 - JOSENILDO SOARES BEZERRA - UFRNExterna à Instituição - MARIA INÊS BATISTA CAMPOS - USP
Externa à Instituição - MIRIAM BAUAB PUZZO - Unitau