EVENTS IN/AND DISCOURSE: MEANING DISPUTES IN THE BRAZILIAN AND THE FOREIGN PRESS COVERAGE OF THE OCCUPATION OF A SLUM IN RIO DE JANEIRO BY POLICE FORCES

Authors

  • Andréa Rodrigues Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
  • Lucia Maria Alves Ferreira Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/2237-4876.2013v16n1p121

Keywords:

Memory. City. Journalistic discourse.

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the ways the occupation of Rocinha, a slum in Rio de Janeiro, by police forces is reported in texts and images in the online coverage of the newspapers O Globo (Brazil), Clarin
(Argentina) and Le Monde (France). The research is based on the theoretical framework of French Discourse Analysis, mainly the concepts of discursive formation, discursive memory (cf. Courtine, 1981); opacity (cf. Orlandi,
1999) and event-words (cf. Moirand, 2008, 2012). The meanings of the events that took place in Rio de Janeiro are regulated by possible current narratives related to the memory of the city and to an immediate context
related to the fact that the city will be hosting the 1914 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. The comparison of the discursive production in the above mentioned newspapers aims at identifying the processes of meaning
production so as to answer the following questions: a) in which ways can different conditions of discursive production silence certain meanings and promote others in discourse; b) which would be the transparency effects in
these newspaper discourses; c) how and why are certain meanings naturalized in some texts and questioned in others?

Author Biographies

Andréa Rodrigues, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Professora do Departamento de Letras da Faculdade de Formação de Professores da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Doutora em Linguística (2001) pela PUC-Rio e Mestre em Linguística (1993) pela UFRJ.

Lucia Maria Alves Ferreira, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Docente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Memória Social - PPGMS - UNIRIO.

Av. Pasteur, 458 - Rio de Janeiro - 22290-255 - RJ

lmaf@connection.com.br

 

Mestre em Linguística e Letras pela PUC-RGS (1984) e Doutora em Linguística pela UFRJ (2000). É professora associada III da Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO, onde atua como docente na graduação e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Memória Social

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Published

2013-01-20

How to Cite

RODRIGUES, Andréa; FERREIRA, Lucia Maria Alves. EVENTS IN/AND DISCOURSE: MEANING DISPUTES IN THE BRAZILIAN AND THE FOREIGN PRESS COVERAGE OF THE OCCUPATION OF A SLUM IN RIO DE JANEIRO BY POLICE FORCES. Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, [S. l.], v. 16, n. 1, p. 121–147, 2013. DOI: 10.5433/2237-4876.2013v16n1p121. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/signum/article/view/2237-4876.2013v16n121. Acesso em: 4 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2013): Linguagem e Sentido: estudos textuais e discursivos

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