Factory of Jokers: evaluative strategies in the construction of meaning in the journalistic text
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https://doi.org/10.22168/2237-6321-32003Keywords:
Appraisal System. Discourse semantics. Opinion column.Abstract
This work has as theoretical framework the Systemic-Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY, 1985, 1989, 2014; FUZER; CABRAL, 2014), which sees language as a sociosemiotic system related to society; as well as (WHITE, 2004; MARTIN; WHITE, 2005) to refer to the Evaluation System and (ROSE; MARTIN, 2012) as a contribution to genre. Therefore, the main objective of this article is to verify how the Appraisal System (WHITE, 2004; MARTIN; WHITE, 2005) contributes to the construction of meanings in the opinion text entitled “Fábrica de Coringas” (SCHNEIDER, 2019). Thus, we aim at presenting, through the analysis of the author’s semantic discoursive choices, made by analogy with the stereotype of the character Joker, the government’s disregard for social issues that happened in Brazil. The methodology adopted for the analysis of the corpus is organized in the following steps: 1) segmentation of the text in stages, according to the guidelines of Rose and Martin (2012); 2) identification of the author’s evaluations with respect to the people and their rulers; 3) identification and classification of the occurrences of the Evaluative system based on the categories proposed by Martin and White (2005); 4) description of the realization of meanings in the text based on the use of resources available in semantics of the discourse; 5) verification of how the author makes linguistic choices in order to be aligned with the reader. The results revealed the predominance of appreciation resources by negative composition and valuation to configure the current social, economic and political situation in Brazil. Such values are intensified by the force-intensification grading subsystem.
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