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| Author(s): |
Marcela Franco Fossey
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2006-03-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Sírio Possenti;
Sheila Vieira de Camargo Grillo;
Jose Luiz Forin
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| Advisor: | Sírio Possenti |
| Abstract | |
This work aims to characterize, from a discursive approach, two distinct manners of divulging science for general public in two scientific vulgarization magazines: Superinteressante and Pesquisa Fapesp. Taking into account the previous knowledge of who is the target public of each of these magazines ¿ the young layperson, in the first case, and someone closer to the scientific field, in the second case ¿ we describe how this reading public gets ¿materialized¿ through textual and discursive signs. We assumed, based on the French Discourse Analysis, specifically on the notion of global semantic, as proposed by Maingueneau (1984), that by analyzing signs on the textual surface ¿ typical vocabulary or preferred forms of the reported speech, for instance ¿ it is possible to identify the presumed reader, as well as the image of journalist and science emerged from each of these publications. This is a consequence of the understanding that discourse and text are mutually related and, therefore, the use of some textual elements instead of others are, basically, discursive conditioned choices. These choices, from this point of view, point out to the set of discursive rules that circumscribes the ¿speechble¿ of each magazine. This means that, looking beyond any editorial supposition, we tried to demonstrate how it is possible to picture specific images for the reader, the journalist and the science given the textual and discursive possibilities of each of those magazines. For this investigation, we concentrate our analysis on the genre report ¿ particularly texts regarding researches done by ¿hard sciences¿. Other genres are addressed only in order to confirm the hypotheses proposed during the development of this work (AU) | |