A construção da imagem polêmica do Papa Francisco: uma análise dos títulos de notícias

Abstract

In 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected the new pope of the Catholic Church. The circumstances of his election and the atitudes of the new pontiff drew the media attention that he began to see him as a “different pope”. This paper aims to investigate whether the press has constructed the image of a controversial pope using news headlines. The research methodology consists of the analysis of the corpus of five news items, by means of a comparison between the headline and the journalistic text that accompanies it. In this way, we try to identify diferences between what is reported in the headline and what is written in the body of the news. The theoretical contribution was the concept of controversy, according to Ruth Amossy (2014). In addition, there are also definitions and typifications of journalistic titles according to authors Alves (2003), Assumpção e Bocchini (2006) Genette (2009), as well as reflections on strategies enumerated by Arthur Schoupenhauer (2014), which were adapted for the construction tow impostor titles. It is concluded at the end of this work, that the polemical image of Pope Francis is constructed from the maintenance of the controversy around his speeches and atitudes, using the great reach that the titles have.