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Representações do Brasil na cobertura do correspondente Larry Rohter pelo New York Times

Bibliographic Data

ID5782013
AuthorsIvan Paganotti (0000-0001-5662-4240, corresponding author)
Year2010
Publication date2010-08-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/d.27.2010.tde-05112010-111508
OpenAlexW1686147373
LanguagePT
Citations received1
References cited9

Objective: Journalistic articles published in the The New York Times, by Larry Rohter, the newspaper's correspondent in Brazil, are based on a full range of impressions and notions regarding the country that his readers might have and might recognize as valid.This study seeks to identify the textual strategies followed by Rohter to reproduce, change, question, deny, or create Brazilian descriptions.Methods: By means of critical discourse analysis, mechanisms for translating concepts peculiar to Brazil for foreign understanding are evaluated, taken from basic shared knowledge and analogies with similar American concepts.The influence and reinforcement of anticipated Brazilian imagery and speculations regarding measures to be taken in the economic and political areas of the country are also analyzed.Results: Even though the storylines call up stereotypical images of Brazil, presuppositions are disrupted by distracting events that emerge and break with what is expected.The imbalance established by Rohter ends up increasing reader interest in less urgent news items, but this strategy is not as necessary in situations that are obviously conflicting, and that represent deviations in the social order, which are naturally presumed in the texts

Art · Epistemology · Humanities · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Presupposition · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Linguistics and Education Research · Philosophy

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