A modalização em notícias de violência doméstica contra a mulher no Brasil e em Portugal: uma estratégia dialógica e discursiva

Abstract

This doctoral dissertation aims to analyze how the modalization works on news about domestic violence against woman, published in the newspapers A Gazeta (Brazilian newspaper) and Público (Portuguese newspaper) respectively in the year 2014. This subject constitutes as a dialogical strategy and discursive. On the basis of theoretical approaches from language scholars, initially, the news could bring implicit or explicit marks of the position from the enunciator ahead the discourse that produces and enunciates. Although, the news is considered a discursive construction of reality and having the social function of informing about some subject, in an objective form neutral and impartial. Regarding this dissertation, the modalization as a dialogic and discursive strategy, from the Bakhtin dialogism perspective looks at the categories: social voices, appreciative tone, discourse quoted and theme/ signification as modalization mechanisms discourse that appropriates the enunciator in his discussing plan. Observing and analyzing how the linguistic traces occur on the discursive process from news construction, we may conclude that the news is permeated by an appreciative tone that is manifested from the lexical choices and the disposition statements, revealing the subjectivity marks from the enunciator in face of how it enunciated in the journalistic sphere. It is important underscore that are evident the social voices that echo in its speech, reflecting and refract legitimized social representations about the woman domestic violence victim. Therefore, the effect of sense built by the modalization use on news about domestic violence against woman may contribute to the trivialization or refutation from this violence in the sociohistorical and cultural context in contemporary society