Representações e imaginários na produção discursiva de jornalistas - intelectuais mineiros (1932-1964)

Abstract

This work presents the social discursive imaginaries and representations evidenced in the life narratives and in the journalistic production of intellectuals: Alaíde Lisboa Oliveira, Maria de Lourdes Boechat Cunha, João Etienne Arreguy Filho, Virgílio Hora de Castro Veado and José Maria Rabelo. The content present in the narratives and texts of these subjects transits through themes that demonstrate the diversity through which journalistic work pervaded in the first decades of the last century in Belo Horizonte, as well as pointing to the construction of a field and a network of sociability that externalize after critical and interpretive analysis. The methodology used consists of, based on Patrick Charaudeau's Semiolinguistic Theory, analyzing the interviews given by the narrating subjects to the Union of Professional Journalists of Minas Gerais (SJPMG), between the years 1982 and 1996, which are part of the collection “History of Mineiro Journalism”, in addition to the texts written by them. We assume that these narratives and journalistic texts of this group of intellectuals, which includes reports, chronicles, opinionated texts and columns with fixed periodicity, are part of a political field whose performance was decisive in the construction of an articulated and homogeneous group of ideas. In this sense, we intend to relate, through this research, the life narratives of the subjects who are enunciated in front of the cameras to the varied journalistic texts that they have produced throughout their careers in the journals. We believe that all this discursive production reveals different views and symbolizations about the journalistic and cultural practice of the young capital of Minas Gerais between the years 1930 and 1964.