Violência e preconceito contra os nordestinos brasileiros: uma análise crítica do discurso em notícias jornalísticas

Abstract

This thesis has the purpose of investigating which treatment is given by the news genre writers to the events of violence and prejudice against the people from the Brazilian Northeast. The choice of this genre is due to its belonging to the symbolic elites, ie, due to its high power of discursive production and dissemination. As a result, the selection criteria of the corpus was based on news stories that bring the voice of violence and prejudice, for they transmit, consequently, ideological discourses. This work draws on Critical Discourse Analysis, looking specifically at Norman Fairclough's analytical guiding principles. For this researcher, discourse produces three meanings, namely the actional, the representational and identificational. In order to infer these meanings from news, the analysis was based, respectively, on the following categories: general structure, representation of social actors and modality. This qualitative analysis showed that the meanings produced by the news, mostly, seek to reverse the discrimination that the people from the Northeast still suffer due to historical determinants. Thus, the social and cultural change proposed by Fairclough in order to minimize the asymmetric representation of social minorities - the Brazilian Northeastern people, in this case -, will only be achieved when the ideological discourses that promote this representation become explicit for society