HOUSE DEFEATS DILMA, AND MINAS FAILS AÉCIO: A FUNCTIONAL-COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF BRAZILIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

Authors

  • Dioney Moreira Gomes Universidade de Brasília
  • Letícia Sallorenzo Universidade de Brasília

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v18i3.7468

Keywords:

functional-cognitive linguistics; ideological manipulation; Brazilian elections 2014; newspaper headlines

Abstract

This paper intends to evaluate Brazilian newspaper headlines under the perspective of functional-cognitive Linguistics. How do headlines affect the cognitive process of reality and ideology acquisition? We analyzed headlines published at O Globo and Folha de S. Paulo newspapers, collected between October 6th and October 31st 2014 (from the 2nd round definition to the election results). We evaluate features such as: metaphors and metonymies; strategies of voice changing; choices of (non-)prototypical alignments between grammatical relations, semantic and pragmatic roles; and the relation between such alignments and the representations built by the speeches produced by the politics section of Brazilian newspapers. Preliminary results show how headlines work characters: President Dilma does not have control over the situation, and Aécio is a victim of the circumstances.

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Author Biographies

Dioney Moreira Gomes, Universidade de Brasília

Professor Associado II do Departamento de Linguística da Universidade de Brasília (UnB), atuando no
desenvolvimento de pesquisas sobre línguas indígenas, língua portuguesa, língua brasileira de sinais (Libras) e formação inicial e continuada de professores. Possui licenciatura em Letras pela UnB. Concluiu mestrado e doutorado em Linguística na UnB, tendo sido, durante este último período de formação, pesquisador visitante nos seguintes centros de pesquisa franceses: Centre d'Études de Langues Indigènes d'Amérique (CELIA/Paris) e Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (DDL/Lyon).

Letícia Sallorenzo, Universidade de Brasília

Jornalista formada pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Graduanda em Letras pela Universidade de Brasília e Mestranda de Pós Graduação em Linguística da UnB (PPGL/UnB).

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Published

2017-12-21

How to Cite

Gomes, D. M., & Sallorenzo, L. (2017). HOUSE DEFEATS DILMA, AND MINAS FAILS AÉCIO: A FUNCTIONAL-COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF BRAZILIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES. Papers of Language and Society, 18(3), 267–283. https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v18i3.7468