Notícias sobre adolescentes em situação de vulnerabilidade social: uma análise das vozes à luz da Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional

Abstract

This thesis aims at analyzing the newspapers Folha de São Paulo and Agora São Paulo, in order to verify which are the most accessed voices , how they are organized and which contents in speeches are in hard news focusing adolescents in a social vulnerability situation, regarding aspects such as-1) social: a high index of teenager murders, the media focus on the situation of youth involved in violence, 2) personal: my work in a community vulnerable to violence, and my extensive work with this group 3) theoretical - the expansion of research in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) focusing on adolescents. The theme of this work is supported specifically by the ideational metafunction of SFL, since it is through that metafunction that speakers talk about the their inner and external world. Considering that the media has a crucial social, political and educational role, the discussion has attempted to consider these aspects. The methodology consists of 120 news from the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo and 120 from Agora São Paulo newspaper, both published between January and December 2009. The analysis were carried on with the computer program WordSmith Tools 5.0 (Scott, 2009) in order to optimize the data analysis. Since the focus is on the voices of the participants mentioned above, the analysis focused on the sayer, the organization of the projections that were most frequent in the corpora, and the content of the messages of verbal sentences. The results indicate that there are two most accessed voices 1) voices from representatives of institutions like the police and justice, held mostly on parataxis projections, accompanied with verbs of speech with a high degree of assertiveness, and 2) voices of less accessed groups of speakers- teens, families, adult victims, who had their speeches, mostly conducted in hypotactic mode with verbs of speech with low assertiveness-neutral verbs. A content analysis of the verbal sentences showed that although adolescents are the focus of news, they are seldom mentioned as sayer and as participants in the experiential projections. Thus, it was observed that there is an emphasis on highlighting the crime, especially in the police action, without considering the teenager as being a socio-historical, active, and highly influenced by the context