THE POWER RELATIONSHIPS INVOLVED IN LEGITIMATE DEFENSE WITH WEAPONS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE NEWSPAPER O ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO
Abstract
This article presents a study whose purpose is to investigate the functioning of the mediatic discourse on self-defense with weapons, based on argumentative strategies and power relations in the media. To this end, we intend to describe and interpret how the ways of discursivizing civil weapons are constituted, structured and reproduce meanings, having, in the media production of the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, a space constituted for the materialization of ideologies. Therefore, for this observation, we consider the theoretical assumptions of Discourse Analysis, derived from the line of Michel Pêcheux and his group. As a corpus of investigation, we selected the subject Gun registration grows 280%; Bolsonaro promises a decree to facilitate inauguration, published in the virtual environment, in 2018. Given this situation, we interpret in the analyzed journalistic text, how different meanings are established to gain support, reduce resistance, in order to reflect interests and intervene in the decisions and relations of the society.
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