O processo de construção das narrativas midiaticas como marca da ideologia no discurso: analise de histórias sobre a criminalidade associada ao tráfico de drogas no Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

In this thesis, we present a study on media discourse which deals with urban violence today. This choice was motivated by three fundamental questions: first, the importance that the media and symbolic systems have taken on our understanding of social events; second, the visibility given by the media to events that involve violence in its various forms; third, the belief in the efficiency of the theoretical-methodologicaltools of discourse analysis as a method of investigating the marks of ideology in discourse. In order to carry out the proposed research, we delimited the corpus to a set of seven articles on criminality related to drug trafficking in the city of Rio de Janeiro, published in 2007 by three different magazines: Veja, Isto É and Carta Capital. In these articles, using the theoretical and methodological procedures of discourse analysis (especially the one which has been called "trends of Frenchdiscourse analysis"), we sought to understand the discursive and ideological formations brought out by the speakers/magazines in the representation of crime. For this purpose, we adopted as categories of analysis the protagonist-antagonist rules of organization of the narratives proposed by Beaugrand and Colby (1979), in addition to the features of marked heterogeneity, specifically the reported speech (direct, indirect and the modalization of speech into second speech) and words inquotation marks. The analysis of these articles revealed that, despite some differences in the positioning of the journals examined which ranged between more or less critical, especially in relation to the government's action to fight crime the issue of criminality related to drug trafficking is marked by a hegemonic ideological formation, which reduces the complexity of the problem to a struggle of good againstevil, advocating, therefore, the use of military force (police) by the State as a way of fighting crime.