A justiça do trabalho do Ceará na imprensa: uma análise do discurso nos jornais O Povo e Diário do Nordeste

Abstract

This research analyzes the discourse of the newspapers O Povo and Diário do Nordeste about Ceará’s Labor Court in order to identify how the institution’s representation is constructed by the press and how it uses the organizational discourse to form theirs. The methodology used analyzes the presence of the voices in journalistic utterances from the direct and indirect speech, according to the discourse analysis theories by Mainguenaeu Dominique and Patrick Charaudeau. All news articles mentioning the public agency were collected between June 2012 to June 2014. For the qualitative analysis, eight news articles of the informative genre were selected in which the agenda directly involved the Ceará’s Labor Court. As a way to assist in interpreting the data analyzed, the journalistic statements were correlated with the theories of journalism agenda-setting, gatekeeper and newsmaking with public communication concepts and techniques of media relations. Among the main conclusions reached, it was realized that the press prefers to statements in indirect speech and resort to the use of antagonistic voices guidelines involving legal disputes; and the use of discursive resources built on structurally neutral ways does not prevent the newspaper speech of aligning to one side in the dispute.