Self-Representation of Brazilian Far-Right News Portals in Independent Journalistic Discourse under Critical Discourse Analysis

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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n70a09

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Public Opinion, Media, Journalism, Far Right, Critical Discourse Analysis, Brazil

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyse the self-definitions provided by Brazil’s far-right digital newspapers and how they align themselves within “independent” journalism. These are the digital newspapers with the highest frequency of participation in Bolsonaro-aligned media. The theoretical framework used is Critical Discourse Analysis, and the methodology employed is qualitative. The Synchronous-Diachronic Method of Linguistic Text Analysis is applied to the corpus. The corpus consists of five texts extracted from the “About Us” section of self-proclaimed independent digital portals during 2022: Aliados Brasil, Foco do Brasil, Jornal da Cidade, Terra Brasil Notícias, and Relevante News. The findings indicate a mobilization of passions, with exaltation of a national hero and his achievements, religious ideals, and discursive representations framed within argumentative paradigms opposing a left considered by them as carrier of drug trafficking, increased censorship, and a supposed gender ideology. The discursive construction of opposition between friend and foe, mobilized by these portals, reveals an oppressive social practice aimed at maintaining ideological hegemony.

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Author Biography

Sabrine Weber, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) (in progress - 2024); Master's degree in Literature from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM, 2018); Bachelor's degree in Portuguese and Portuguese Language Literatures from the Federal University of Santa Maria (2015). She is dedicated to studies in the field of Applied Linguistics from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Genre Analysis, focusing on topics such as reading, writing, and rewriting methodologies for texts; discursive practices of disinformation in digital media in the context of Late Modernity. She is a research fellow funded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES, Brazil).

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Published

2024-05-15

How to Cite

Weber, S. (2024). Self-Representation of Brazilian Far-Right News Portals in Independent Journalistic Discourse under Critical Discourse Analysis. Estudios Políticos, (70), 218–241. https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.espo.n70a09

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