Percepções de jornalistas sobre ironia no jornalismo impresso

Abstract

The study addresses the perception of journalists about the use of irony in their everyday professional enunciations. This is an initial incursion into this discussion, as from information of journalists who work in the editorial room of the daily newspaper O Liberal, from Belém, Pará, one of the oldest in circulation in the Brazilian Amazon, founded in 1946. In journalistic enunciation, language plays significant role on the modes of say and the provision of meaning effects possibilities, including the ironic. In print journalism, the irony eminently plays a critical role, with multiple resources of use, and not is situated, necessarily, as a category of humor. The research has showed that professionals hold that knowledge about the irony and use it as a strategic discursive resource in their journalistic constructions, counting on the reader's sagacity to perceive them or create them. After all, the irony depends on the interlocutors to be established.