Análise do discurso dos jornais Diário do Nordeste e O Povo a respeito da população de rua de Fortaleza

Abstract

The work aims to reflect on the newspapers Diário do Nordeste and O Povo discourses about the homeless population of Fortaleza, considering the period from January to October 2012. During this period of time, it was collected news from the Communications Advisory at the City Department of Social Assistance (Semas) of the Municipality of Fortaleza, about the homeless people of the city. Then, how a specific goal, it is the relationship between the Communication Advisory of this department and the newspapers studied through Theories from Agenda and Gatekeeping. To help the understanding of the concepts and fundamentals of the Discourse Analysis (DA), the monograph permeates through Brandão (2012), Orlandi (2005), and also through authors such as: Bakhtin (1979), Benveniste (1989), Pecheux (1975), Authier-Revuz (2004) and Ducrot (1987). To bring the study to the scope of the Discourse of Information, it was presented the concepts of the French author Charaudeau (2006), who helped analyzing the mechanics of meaning construction, the nature of knowledge, the effect of truth and the types of informants, their forms of engagement as regards the information and the evidence used.Then a literature review of the theories of the Agenda and the Gatekeeping by the authors McCombs (2009) and Shoemaker & Vos (2011) was taken. Finally, analysis of the data of the articles collected from January to October 2012 and the final