O poder da linguagem de expressar e (se) produzir ideologias: manifestações de junho de 2013 no Brasil - posições enunciativas nos editoriais de Veja e Carta Capital

Abstract

In June 2013, the main Brazilian national media, exhaustively addressed the large street demonstrations, known as the Journeys of June, which exploded across the country in the wake of the protests that had occurred in several other countries of the world since 2011. Based on the importance of these manifestations for the recent political history of Brazil, and considering the strong influence of weekly magazines in the outcome of these events in the country, the objective of this study is to analyze the enunciative positions of the magazines Veja and Carta Capital, through their editorials when addressing these manifestations. Based on the analysis, as well as discussing the influence of these positions on the post-June 2013 socio-political developments in the country. To achieve such objectives, the researcher uses the qualitative research paradigm of the bakhtinian Dialogical Discourse Analysis as suggested in Bakhtin, which also dialogues with the ideas of contemporary thinkers who have dedicated themselves in studying similar manifestations recently occurring around the globe, such as Manuel Castells, Zygmunt Bauman, Carlo Bordoni, Slavoy Žižek, Boaventura Santos, among others. It also dialogues with authors such as John Thompson, Manuel Castells and Dênis de Moraes, who have contributed with studies about the power of the contemporary media in social change. The results of the study indicate that texts function as a dialogical space, in which the speaker/writer reveals certain enunciative/ideological positions, constituted according to certain values and interests. Veja's editorials show that the discursive change of the magazine in relation to the June Days Manifestations do not imply a change of position, confirming this way the conservative ideological positioning of the magazine. Also, the editorial line of Carta Capital, through its enunciative positioning in the editorials, reaffirms the progressive line that it proposes to follow. The analysis and interpretation of the data also show that Veja, through its anti-government discourse, along with other important conservative press agencies in Brazil, was at the forefront of the post-june 2013 political developments in the country