A notícia on-line da "situação de emergência" provocada pela seca em Alagoas: realidade criada e aspectos silenciados

Abstract

The Northeast is known discursively as the region of drought, without development, of the poor, suffering people, being thus seen by a bias of stereotypy, with drought as the main motto for this discourse to be maintained. In this sense, it is necessary to understand which discourses in this regard circulate socially. In this work, we understand that, according to Molion (2016), the drought in the Northeast is not an occasional phenomenon, but a historical phenomenon that must be understood as being a climatic data of that region. In this reasoning, Albuquerque Jr. (1988; 2011) also understands drought as a climatic phenomenon, a water deficit, on which meanings that bind to power relations are being printed. Based on these understandings, we understand that it is necessary not only a geomorphological and historical perspective on this phenomenon, but also a look at the effects of meaning that the discursive practices build on the drought. In this perspective, the linguistic-discursive analysis on this phenomenon becomes important to understand which discourses circulate and which meanings are forged, in this case in particular the analysis of the discursive genre "newspaper news" that circulates in Alagoas. For the analysis, we understand the language through a transversal perspective, understanding the social practice in the perspective of Applied Linguistics, understanding the drought, therefore, as a phenomenon of nature on which a historical-discursive construction is forged, thus necessitating a study by an undisciplined approach. This research is part of the study carried out in the project "The enunciative-discursive construction of the drought in Alagoas", linked to PIBIC 2017-2018, within the Grupo de Estudos em Linguística Aplicada em Questões do Sertão Alagoano (GELASAL). Thus, we had as main objective to understand the discourse on the drought in Alagoas built in newspaper news, realizing if these are of coexistence with the semiarid or just facing the drought. In this way, they served as theoretical-methodological basis Albuquerque Jr. (1988, 2011, 2017); Bakhtin / Volochinov (2004 [1929]); Bazerman (2015); Campus (2014); Bortoni-Ricardo (2008); Charaudeau (2006); Molion (2016), Moita Lopes (1996, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2013); Morin (2003; 2008); Santos Filho (2012), among others. After the analysis, we understand that the discourse that is repeated in the analyzed news is the discourse that places the drought as guilty of the problems lived by the population of the sertão, northeastern, needing, therefore, to be faced, opposed, and not a discourse of coexistence. Therefore, it is a political discourse that does not understand drought as a natural phenomenon of the region, since it is a semi-arid region, where there is a water deficit, and drought is thus a natural climate of the region which needs public policies to live with it.