A critical reading of short journalistic texts: The attack on March 11 / Uma leitura crítica de cronicas jornalísticas: o atentado de 11 de março

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

The basis of the present study is the set of principles of Discourse Analysis as practiced in France. Its theme is a proposal for a reading of short journalistic texts of a political nature. The overall objective is to offer proof of the social mode of language in which discourse is a socio-historical object whose specificity is present in its materiality. The specific aim is a proposal for a critical reading to enable meanings to be extended, favoring a less naïve standpoint, one that is more engaged with the times, and with the socio-historical context represented by the text, through its given, unique linguistic materiality. The work is grounded upon an analysis of two short news pieces, which deal with the attack on March 11, 2004, in Madrid, and as such, the choice of the theme is due to the importance of the fact in relation to politics in the world in this century. In addition to the individual analysis, it must be highlighted that there is a comparison between enunciators point of view, which led to only two stories. The short stories pieces makes the analysis start from the enunciative scene in which the subject-author evokes meanings through his specificities and history. There are distinctions between the discursive universe, discursive field and discursive spaces in which the short pieces are located. Evidence is provided of discursive formations and relation with the ideological background. The dissertation offers proof by the studying of irregularities which explain the language action of the enunciators, and helps to show the intentionality of the meanings that are produced, the never-neutral use of language, and raises the need for studies that bear out these data, always by means of the materialization of possible interpretations. Interpretations that make the readers ever-alert observers of the spoken and the unspoken; readers who conceive of the act of reading as a production of meanings, that is to say, of a reading that is a necessary mediation between man and social, enabling transformation of man and the world in which man lives. Therefore, critic reading turns man into an active and participant being, conveying stories and positioning himself as part of them

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story-discursive kind discourse analysis análise do discurso gênero discursivo-crônica jornalistic discourse lingua portuguesa discurso jornalístico crônicas

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