Citações e sobreasseverações : o funcionamento da retomada de falas em notícias online

Abstract

Defining what may or what should be broadcasted in electoral campaigns is a social and political medium requirement. The social media have to face issues imposed by the reading public and are restricted by space limitations and by fastness in the (re)production of events. When politics performs a discourse in ideas and power through its agents, it proposes, vindicates and denounces, complying with a logic that produces truth effects. The analysis of online news based on speech reports will be undertaken within the above context. News are highly rich is overstatements which, according to Maingueneau (2008a), insist on the underscoring by the interlocutor of the source-text, generally in short phrases, for the sake of synthesis or generalization. Within the context of social media functioning, overstatements are often ascribed to an interlocutor who did not give that special emphasis as reported in the source-text. It is often the case that the underscored enunciation in the source-text undergoes several changes and modifications. An analysis will be thus undertaken on the manner the reports of Bandeirantes and Globo TV-transmitted political debates on the second round of the 2010 Brazilian elections were reproduced in seven online newspapers Carta Capital, Correio Braziliense, Band, Época, Uol, Veja and Terra. The speeches of the debates were first recorded and transcribed. The transcriptions were then compared with the online news; the overstatements were tabulated and analyzed according to the theoretical suggestions by Maingueneau (2008a), coupled to the theories by Krieg-Planque (2011a) and scholars of the Research Center Formulas and Stereotypes: Theory and Analysis (FEsTA) and others researching basic concepts for the analysis of discursive/social media functioning on online news. Results show two types of discursive maneuverings through the construction of online news: the first is a synthesis process and the second implies different degrees of changes in the (re)production of meanings. Maneuverings used in the building of online news imply the modifications of contexts, phrases and grammatical subjects in such a way that the underscorings displace, silence, include and invert meanings that remake the scene of the TV political debates.