A constituição e o funcionamento de artigos de divulgação científica na mídia impressa: características composicionais e estratégias discursivas

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Jairo Venicio Carvalhais de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Estratégias discursivas; Características composicionais; Artigo de divulgação científica; Mìdia impressa; Gêneros textuais; Análise do discurso; Estratégia discursiva; Discurso jornalístico; Lingüística textual; Divulgaçao cientifica
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/MGSS-9VNNPX

This paper takes as research object the dissemination of science in print, from a systematic study of the genre called popular science article. Through the description and analysis of their compositional characteristics and their discursive strategies, seeks to know, in general, how is the creation and functioning in daily print media. For the research were collected (128) Scientific articles published in the Estado de Minas newspaper, from October / 2010 to March / 2011. Of this total, we selected a limited corpus, consisting of (12) genre copies, which deal specifically with issues related to the Health Sciences area. The texts were analyzed in the light of theoretical and methodological presuppositions of linguistics Textual and complementarily of discourse analysis. The results indicate that the popular science articles published in the daily print media develop the existing intersection between scientific and journalistic speeches and presented as characteristic precípua the argumentativity. This leads to the mobilization of a number of procedures that encompasses both the compositional characteristics of the genre and the selection of linguistic-discursive resources that best meet the task of bringing scientific discoveries of the non-specialist reader. In addition, it found that gender investigated, while it is configured as an object of knowledge, able to inform ordinary citizens, also functions as an object of consumption, seeking to attract the interest of readers and aiming at last instance, to persuade them of the truth and credibility of knowledge produced by the institutionalized practice of science. We believe that the understanding of this process may contribute to the formation of critical citizens and able to understand not only the scientific content of the information disclosed, but the strategies used by the print media to fulfill this task.