A origem e o fim do mundo: análise discursiva de textos de divulgação científica na Superinteressante

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Sant'ana, Maíra Ferreira
• Orientador(a): Paes, Cristiane Cataldi dos Santos
• Banca de defesa: Rabelo, Ernane Correa , Xavier, Mariana Ramalho Procópio
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Letras
• Departamento: Estudos Linguisticos e Estudos Literários
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Análise do discurso; Divulgação científica; Revista Superinteressante
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Discourse analysis; Science communication; Magazine Superinteressante
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4876

In this study, we looked at the linguistic and discursive treatments given to the questions of creation and end of the world in the reports published in the popular science magazine Superinteressante, issued November 2012, at the height of the polemics surrounding the Mayan calendar. We began with considerations on the magazine‟s editorial line and contextualizion of the communicative situation of each text based on the Theory of Semiolinguistics. We then described and analyzed the process of recontextualization of the scientific information by means of the linguistic-discursive strategies of expansion, reduction and variation, along with publishing strategies. This study was structured as follows: contextualization of the study; discussion on the subject of creation and end of the world, especially the Mayan perspective on the end of the world; presentation of the framework of Semiolinguistics (CHARAUDEAU, 2009, 2012) and Discourse Analysis in Popular Science (CALSAMIGLIA, 1997; CATALDI, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2011; CIAPUSCIO, 1997; VAN DIJK, 2011); description of the Superinteressante magazine; discussion on popular science from the perspective of Semiolinguistics; and analysis drawn from the identification of linguistic-discursive and publishing strategies. We concludente that the communicative situation leads the discourse in the reports and observed that publishing strategies as well as informal language were used to address and interact with young readers. We also observed that the magazine informs and hooks its readers by letting them concerned and curious. The linguistic-discursive strategy most used was the expansion. Likewise, the publishing strategy most frequent was the explanation. In this way, the scientific literature concerning the subject of creation and end of the world published in that special issue of Superinteressante has shown to be more explanatory than conceptual.