Representações discursivas de imigrantes haitianos residentes no Brasil: uma análise dialógica da mídia jornalística

Abstract

The year 2010 marks the beginning of a new and intense period of Haitian immigration to Brazil, an event that has gained prominence in the Brazilian media. The aim of this study is to understand how Haitian immigrants living in Brazil are represented in the discourse of the news media, given that mass communication plays a role in the construction of representations that people create of the world. To this end, this research is anchored in the field of Applied Linguistics and takes as its theoretical basis the contributions of the Bakhtin Circle, with regard to the theoretical-methodological aspects of Dialogic Analysis of Discourse, the contributions of studies on alterity and cultural identities, as well as the contributions of studies on mass communication and the news genre. This investigation seeks to answer the following questions: how do the news media represent Haitian immigrants living in Brazil? Does the style of the texts reveal which verboaxiological aspects are linked to this representation? Thus, four news articles from the printed editions of the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper have been selected as the corpus of analysis. Based on the concept of style, from the perspective of the Bakhtin Circle, which guides the analysis, the data revealed discursive representations of the Haitian immigrant as a threat to employability, responsible for their employment situation, a commodity, unwanted and not integrated into Brazil, constructed by the stylistic choices of journalistic enunciators.