Monitoramento eletrônico de presos no RS : uma leitura bakhtiniana do discurso do gênero reportagem na esfera jornalística

Abstract

This paper proposes an analysis of construction of meanings of speech in reportages on electronic monitoring of prisoners in Rio Grande do Sul (RS), from the analysis of speeches printed in the newspaper Zero Hora (ZH) between the months of January and May of 2013, in the perspective of Enunciation Theory by Bakhtin and his Circle. The research, based on bakhtinian dialogic theory, more specifically, seeks to identify the discursive voices that make up the speech, to recognize compositional elements of the genre reportage of the journalistic sphere, and to verify marks of the speaker of the enunciation through the evaluating accents circulating in the utterances, understanding how all these aspects interweave to form meaning. Under the focus of the theory discussed in this work, language is understood as a social phenomenon of verbal interaction. In this conception, the relationship between the subjects is constituted through interpersonal relations, because the speech is always a response to another speech, establishing an inter-relationship between dialogues that build relationships of meaning. The selected corpus consists of reportages published in ZH that address electronic monitoring of prisoners in Rio Grande do Sul, whose theme is a controversy regarding public security in the state. The analysis consists of the survey and the relationship between the linguistic elements that mark what has been said and what has been left unsaid as well as extraverbal elements, in order to identify the interweaving of voices present in the speech, in the dialogical perspective. Through this work, it is possible to recognize that the genre reportage, refuting the thesis of common sense, is a clash of socioideological voices, marked by evaluative accent of the speaker, being, by no means, a neutral speech.