Como é noticiada a violência sexual contra mulher no Brasil: Análise de manchetes de notícias sobre casos de estupro

Abstract

In this work, an analysis of news headlines concerning rape cases in Brazil was completed by Critical Discourse Analysis - CDA (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001 [1992]), to verify positions and possible interpretations of these headlines in an effort to understand how victims and agressors are represented in the texts, which may provoke an inverse between the roles. To carry out this analysis we used tools such as forms of representation of social actors (VAN LEEUWEN, 1997), systems of transitivity and thematic structure (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2004), for the systems that help us find the significance of the statements, as well as understand the ideologies of those who write them, which is a reflection of the society of which we live in. From the analysis, utilizing the system of transitivity, we identified that rape appears to be the consequence of another event, and not the principal focus of the headlines. Through the thematic structure system we can realize that, in most cases, rape is not the thematic element of the news. In relation to the forms of representation of social actors, we can see on several occasions that the aggressor is passively included in the headlines or, in some cases, excluded. This way we can conclude that in these headlines, both the victims and the aggressors are placed in the background, softening the crime.