Inumeráveis

Abstract

This research seeks to understand how emotions may be taken as an informational, journalistic and communicative element. Textual and discursive marks are taken in order to build the analysis on the Memorial website “Inumeráveis” (Brazilian Portuguese). The present work consider studies of language and discourse, as well as also identifies the aesthetics of a narrative to promote emotion while an element used to awaken affections and to build collective memory in relation to the COVID-19 event in the pandemic time during the years 2020 and 2021. It is a monographic research with a case study methodology supported by bibliographic research in a qualitative approach. For analysis of the Memorial texts, we rely on a theoretical foundation that talks the rhetorical tradition with studies on life narrative, journalism and aesthetics. By reinforcing the humanistic character of journalism, we conclude in the direction of answering how the experience of the Memorial can be understood beyond a purely emotional narrative.