Banca de DEFESA: TATIANA DE SOUZA LIMA

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : TATIANA DE SOUZA LIMA
DATE: 26/07/2024
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Videoconferência
TITLE:

DISCURSIVE REPRESENTATION IN THE MAJOR PRINT MEDIA. EDITORIALS DURING THE IMPEACHMENT PROCESS OF BRAZIL'S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT: DILMA ROUSSEFF

KEY WORDS:

Keywords: Discourse Textual Analysis. Discursive representation. Media discourse. Dilma Rousseff. Impeachment.

PAGES: 170
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Lingüística
SUMMARY:

This master’s dissertation examines the construction of discursive representation of former President Dilma Rousseff by the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo during the first month of the impeachment process against her. The process began with the acceptance of the impeachment request by the then President of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha, on December 2, 2015. The texts that are part of the corpus of this research were published between December 3, 2015, and January 2, 2016. This study focuses on the semantic level of the text within the framework of Discourse Textual Analysis; it is also a proposal for analysis focusing on the levels of textual structuring, especially at the microtextual level. Editorials are texts belonging to the opinion section of newspapers, through which the journalistic company presents its point of view on what happens in the country. Thus, the general objective was to identify which elements the newspaper used to construct the discursive representation of Dilma Rousseff during this crucial period in recent history: the first month of the process of deposing Brazil's first elected female president. The research posed the following question: how did Folha de S. Paulo, through its editorials, construct the discursive representation of Dilma during the first month of the impeachment process? Based on a corpus composed of twelve editorials from Folha de S. Paulo, the identification, description, and interpretation of the words used in the editorials were carried out according to the semantic categories of referencing, predication, and modification. The results were presented in tables describing each of the categories. Simultaneously, clauses mentioning Dilma or other related references were separated. The identification resulted in a discourse composed of 147 (one hundred and forty-seven) clauses. One of the theoretical implications is that the corpus indeed corresponds to the propositional content alluded to by Adam (2011) and constructs the discursive representation by Folha de São Paulo. Moreover, we understand that advancing the analysis to the microtextual level provided, at least in part, a glimpse of the "whole meaning" that constitutes the unity of the text (Adam, 2022). In practice, we understand that editorials constitute a discursive genre capable of demonstrating a media outlet's stance within a polyphonic scenario like the current media context. Based on the discourse formulated by Folha de S. Paulo during the period, it can be stated that the newspaper crafted a discourse based on three pillars: political dispute, economic crisis, and Dilma's errors and agony. These themes were observed in the referencers, predicators, and modifiers. In conclusion, we observe that Folha de S. Paulo constructed a discursive representation of Dilma according to which the former president was equated with abstract concepts such as government and Planalto, exacerbated the economic crisis, and lacked the capacity to overcome the political crisis and, therefore, was fit to be defeated.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 349707 - LUIS ALVARO SGADARI PASSEGGI
Interna - 1801855 - ALESSANDRA CASTILHO FERREIRA DA COSTA
Interna - 349685 - MARIA DAS GRACAS SOARES RODRIGUES
Externa à Instituição - ANAHY SAMARA ZAMBLANO DE OLIVEIRA - UPE