Braços cruzados : o discurso do Jornal Gazeta do Sul sobre o movimento grevista da década de 1980.

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the production of senses and maps voices presented on journalistic speech of Gazeta do Sul about the strike movement of the 1980s in Vale do Rio Pardo/RS. Search observing how speech construction was developed about capital versus work clash by the time and which were Gazeta do Sul’s senses for institutionalizing these episodes. Besides, we see who the “actors” that speak are and how they speak on the news’ report. Its theoretical and methodological reference is to Discourse Analysis, with affiliation to the French School. It assumes that the media and journalism - as a product of it - are (re) builders of social reality. The study has detected, based on a corpus composed by eleven strikes, that together resulted in 108 news unit, how Gazeta do Sul has “told” the strike movement. The senses, mainly found in the news reported over these ten years are centered on two approaches: first that the strike represents a transgression, violence, and second, that it leads to losses. In addition, the analytical path shows that the enunciation prospect favors dominant employers. In reporting the strikes of this period under such discursive angle, the publication ends up meeting the values promoted by sectors that have the political and economic power.