HOMICÍDIO NA FRONTEIRA: um estudo de caso sob o prisma dos jornais das cidades gêmeas de Santana do Livramento (Brasil) e Rivera (Uruguai)

Abstract

ABSTRACT This dissertation is the result of a study of the homicides occurred on the border between Brazil and Uruguay. The city chosen for the research field was Santana do Livramento, during the years 2009 to 2011. The typification of crime chosen by the author gave thanks to the emphasis on the topic, since it can generate acirramentos strengthening of national identity and national border war. First, we intend to demonstrate the characteristics of the formation of the State of Rio Grande do Sul and the aspects of globalization that currently tangent cultural practices and interfere in the construction or reflection on the imaginary city. Furthermore, the author sought to make a historical analysis and his approach on the construction of imaginary Gaucho, and how this stereotype was approached by historical matrices, Lusitanian and Hispanic. Whereas the approach of this research field, refers to news about murders happened in the cities of Santana do Livramento, Brazil, and Rivera, Uruguay, were part of this study the formation of press gaucho and his performance during the centuries XVIII and XIX. Were treated, also, methods of study, analysis of newspapers, The Orchestra and The Mail Pampa, and how those papers address the crimes occurred in the border region. In order to conduct a field survey, qualitative, was chosen as the reference method, the Discourse Textual Analysis (DTA). Through Textual Analysis Discursive observing the language and even the highlight to the news published, it is possible to characterize the local media have an interest, even if intentionally in his editorial, provide acirramentos among the inhabitants of the border region