Argumentatividade no jornalismo político brasileiro: aspectos linguístico-discursivos do adjetivo nas notícias sobre o governo atual

Abstract

The present article starts from the premise that there is no impartiality in the media language that, due to its argumentative aspects, should be object of research in the approaches of linguists and teachers of Portuguese Language. The integration of lexical and discourse studies has been the basis of our research and, for that, linguistic theories about the adjective are revised in order to approach media texts increasingly present in language classes. The approach to be developed finds support in the work on adjectives in traditional grammar, of great prestige among scholars of the area, and in the new grammars written by linguists in the last three decades. In the theoretical foundation, it was based on the idea that the adjective is not a secondary term, merely accessory, but a word of strong discursive-argumentative role in the elaboration of texts. We present here an approach, with comparative purposes, of texts by the magazines Veja and Carta Capital on the Dilma Roussef government, before and after the impeachment, in order to show, based on a typology of the adjective, how ideologically they construct journalistic messages.