A seca (em Alagoas) em reportagens televisivas.

Abstract

From my participation as a collaborator in the Scientific Initiation Scholarship Institutional Program (PIBIC), through the Study Group on Applied Linguistics in Questions in the Sertão Alagoano (GELASAL), I developed this final coursework, which aims to discuss the construction of drought in television reports. To achieve this, I conducted an enunciative- discursive analysis in these texts, which is a methodological procedure that is based on “Ethnolinguistics of living speech” (BAHKTIN/VOLOCHINOV (1929 [2006]). In this study, we interpreted the “drought” climatic phenomenon (MOLION, 2016); it is built on three television reports, one from Gazeta de Alagoas, another from TNH1 news portal, and the last one from Jornal Nacional (TV Globo). This phenomenon states what the corpus constitutes, and also describes the purpose for why this discursive construction occurs. While we were reading the reports, we asked ourselves how the media has the power to build itself through language meanings in favor of the senses it wants to reach. We infer that the discourse genre analyzed uses certain verbal and non-verbal resources, through semiotics and television syntax, to forge meanings about the “drought” climatic phenomenon, which also becomes a discursive phenomenon. Therefore, when investigating such aspects in television reports, we observe that the “drought” discourse starts from stigmatization and stereotype about the semi-arid region of the Sertão / Nordeste; the “drought” is constructed/conceptualized in the reports by an elite that aims to perpetuate the “drought” discourse as a confrontation, which inhibits the elaboration of public policies of living with the semi-arid; in addition, we observe that the drought is built in the reports as a natural problem, after it's perceived as something natural, it becomes social, instead of being seen as climatic data of the semi-arid region of Northeastern Sertão. The analyzed reports are based/strengthened in the regionalist discourse of the beginning of the 20th century. This study is affiliated with Applied Linguistics, which, due to its interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary character (MOITA LOPES, 2004), it allows the mobilization of knowledge from other areas of knowledge, such as History and Geography; for example, research is not “stuck” in a disciplinary way, but rather draws upon Other knowledge to produce social intelligibility. As a theoretical basis, we spoke with Albuquerque Jr. (2011; 2014; 2017), Bakhtin/Volochínov (1929; 2006), Bazerman (2015), Molion (2016), Moita Lopes (2006; 2013), Bortoni Ricardo (2008), Santos Filho (2012; 2017), between others.