Práticas discursivas na Amazônia: a disputa jornalística no plebiscito no Pará

Abstract

The article aims to identify and understand the belenense discursive practices about the plebiscite in Pará, in 2011, from the newspapers O Liberal and Diário do Pará. Discourse is taken as a singular communicative event that involves social actors in a specific environment. Journalism, as an act of the social word, inscribes the self and the other in situations of co-presence and mutual affectation. The communicational nature, proposed by Vera França, was adopted as a theoretical-methodological stance. The Critical Discourse Studies, proposed by Van Dijk, was used as data collection technique. The results indicated that the two newspapers built discourses contrary to the Pará division. O Liberal evidenced the market interest and political positioning according to the state government, treating Carajás and Tapajós as outsiders. Diário do Pará adopted an eminently political stance, in accordance with the interests of the RBA Group.