Banca de DEFESA: SARAH FERREIRA RODRIGUES

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STUDENT : SARAH FERREIRA RODRIGUES
DATE: 09/09/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/dgq-uhyr-jzw
TITLE:

A CRITICAL ANALYSIS ABOUT THE DISCOUSIVE REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMINICIDE IN THE PORTALS G1 AND BRASIL DE FATO

KEY WORDS:

Critical discourse analysis. Femicide. Hegemonic Media. Counter-hegemonic Media. Gender.

PAGES: 145
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Lingüística Aplicada
SUMMARY:

The main objective of the present work is to carry out a critical analysis of the discursive representations of the phenomenon of femicide in two online journalistic portals, namely G1 and Brasil de Fato. This investigation is relevant since Brazil was recently classified as having the fifth highest rate of femicide in the world according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which demonstrates the seriousness of this social problem in the country. The media integrates symbolic power and, through the production of media products, distributes symbolic forms in society, making people use the resources made available by it to establish their understanding of the world (THOMPSON, 1998). Discourse, on the other hand, consists of a practice of representation and meaning of the world, constituting and constructing the world in meaning (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001). Therefore, the relevance of the media in the formation of public opinion justifies the interest in studying social phenomena through a media bias. On the other hand, investigating the issue of femicide from a discursive perspective allows the observation of how aspects of language intersect with broader social structures, enabling the understanding of which discourses on femicide have circulated widely in Brazilian society. Furthermore, femicide is a crime motivated by gender issues, which makes the discussion about gender, patriarchy and social roles a central aspect of this research. From a theoretical-methodological point of view, we rely mainly on the critical discourse analysis proposed by Fairclough (1995, 2001, 2003) to carry out this research, also mobilizing some assumptions from Systemic-Functional Linguistics and Corpus Linguistics. Starting from a small corpus (cf. SINCLAIR, 2001) and with the support of data collected through the AntConc program (ANTHONY, 2019), we sought to explain the lexical relations built with the keyword femicide, in order to understand which Discourse orders the term is being listed, as well as describing its use and thematic associations in the G1 and Brasil de Fato portals. To make the analysis feasible, we first turned our attention to language, starting from the standardization of the femicide keyword and, later, relating its use to textual cohesion. The analysis of the conditions of production, distribution and consumption of texts was also part of the analysis, based on the mapping of the characteristics of the studied vehicles, paying attention to the institutional and social context of the media, through the observation of power relations and ideology present in the discourses on the themes that are evoked in the corpus. Through this investigation, it was possible to affirm that the semantic profile of the femicide keyword presents differences when we observe the two portals G1 and Brasil de Fato. While in the G1 portal, femicide is mainly linked to the criminal and police discursive field, focused on a factual perspective of the phenomenon, in the Brasil de Fato portal the discourse of militancy and a sociological discourse are activated, focused on the discussion of femicide as a social problem, seeking a critical analysis of the issue and the need to combat this type of crime.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Interno - 1544164 - CLAUDIO MARCIO DO CARMO
Externo ao Programa - 1673527 - PAULO HENRIQUE CAETANO
Externa à Instituição - CHRISTINA FERRAZ MUSSE