O jornalismo literário e as falas de seus entrevistados: um estudo de linguística sistêmico-funcional

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to identify lexico-gramatical and discoursive aspects in texts of literary jornalism, establishing differences and similarities between literary and traditional jornalism. In the context of literary jornalism, writers use elements of literature to make texts more colorful and atractive to readers (Wolfe, 2005), whereas in traditional jornalism objectivity and imparciality are crucial for the magazine s or paper credibility, making texts clearer and more comprenhensive (Genro Filho, 1987). My objective was to analyse the lexical choices that characterize a corpus of literary jornalism and contrast them with a corpus of a variety of genres of traditional jornalism, contributing to studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and jornalism, as there are few studies on this topic. The research corpus consists of 100 texts of literary jornalism from the magazine Piaui, in 2006 - 2007. The control corpus consists of jornalistic texts from the Banco de Português (DIRECT/LAEL), taken from Veja, Folha de São Paulo and Estado de São Paulo. The texts were analized with the aid of the computer program WordSmith Tools (Scott, 2007). The analysis foccuses ideational metafunction, concentrating on the verbal processes, chosen because they are directly related to projection important in interviews and the insertion of other voices. Although there are similarities between the two contexts, both quantitative and qualitative, the literary jornalism texts uses more stories and literary quotes of the speech of the interviewees, foccussing the introduction and description of the characters in the news. Furthermore, the features of literary language are clear in the description of the interviews and the context of situatuation and the use of irony, characteristics that disntiguish literary from traditional jornalism