This thesis deals with specifics of textual formulas of music journalism in magazines Týden, Reflex and Respekt and it is based on their articles published from January to July 2011. It contains a content analysis of the word-stock with a special interest in metaphors ant its position in our language. We can see the way how we understand the reality around us which is based on a conceptualization in our minds. And then it reflects how we speak and what meanings we give to concrete words. These metaphoric concepts are followed with concrete examples coming from articles. There is also paid attention to colloquiality and bookishness and their suitability in today's media discourse. There is made a comparison of the individual writing of journalists who represent these magazines and we can also see different attitude in processing the same or similar topics. The theoretic part of this thesis follows the history of criticism with special interest in music criticism. Then we compare today's position of this media discourse and we can also see trends which might be followed in the future.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:14:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Viviane Lima Martins.pdf: 7398293 bytes, checksum: 84eca9c0be47d0ca8fb14129a81b951d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-06-25 / This research aims to investigate the extreme changes on the bodies in programs that represent the called reality TV, like reality shows and television documentaries. The body is socially constructed and falls over itself marks that identify and particularize the individual. Transform the surface of the body is a practice that provokes fascination, considering that it goes beyond just seeking a healthy look and perfect body, making embodied idea on the surface of the body. In this context, the body becomes a living record that are registered affections, emotions, representations of history and the subject of his time. While half the body is an instrument of communication and inscribes itself on a textual composition and culture of the social group, which appears resigned to their attitudes and their characterization. However, in the media there is almost no space for description of the actions of called outsiders, the name given by Norbert Elias and John Scotson, to people who, somehow, escape to normal standards, thus thematising processes of social stigmatization, common in many countries. The emergence of numerous bodily techniques and practices (re)physical modeling is anchored in the idea of autonomy and self-regulation of the subject in relation to his/her body, thereby reinforcing a behavior of aversion to bodies that deviate from the dominant aesthetic standard. Thus, the primary goal is to study the position and function of the body as text, and the ways in which the bodies are discursed - accepted standards, as well as outsiders bodies in the programs that comprise the corpus - Extreme Makerover and Tabu Latino America -, thus proposing a study of the maps of values and their communicative contracts. The passionate paths are examined from the semiotics of passions of Greimas and Fontanille, and discursive analyzes are carried out with contributions from Diana Barros, David Le Breton, Beatriz Pires, Bill Nichols and Joseph Campbell, prioritizing interactional issues that affect the body as communication tool. The passions, whether external or figurativizadas the programs, motivate attitudes that lead the individual to transform his own body, and media exposure enhances behavioral and aesthetic concepts and values that are positivized or negative results by common sense of the viewer who consumes this spectacular corporeality aportada on TV / A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar as alterações extremas realizadas nos corpos nos programas que representam a chamada reality TV, como os reality shows e os documentários televisivos. O corpo é socialmente construído e inscreve sobre si marcas que identificam e particularizam o indivíduo. Transformar a superfície do corpo é prática que provoca fascínio, haja vista que se vai além de apenas buscar uma aparência saudável e de corpo perfeito, fazendo encarnar o ideal na superfície do corpo. Neste contexto, o corpo passa a ser registro vivo em que são inscritos afetos, emoções, representações da história do sujeito e de seu tempo. Enquanto meio, o corpo é um instrumento de comunicação e inscreve sobre si uma composição textual e a cultura do grupo social, que aparece conformada em suas atitudes e sua caracterização. Entretanto, nas mídias quase não há espaço para inscrição das ações dos chamados outsiders, denominação dada, por Norbert Elias e John Scotson, a pessoas que, de alguma forma, fogem aos padrões considerados normais, tematizando, assim, os processos de estigmatização social, comuns em vários países. O surgimento das inúmeras práticas corporais e técnicas de (re)modelagem física se ancora na ideia de autonomia e autorregulação do sujeito com relação ao seu corpo, reforçando, com isso, um comportamento de aversão com relação aos corpos que desviam do padrão estético dominante. Desta forma, o objetivo fundamental da pesquisa é estudar a posição e a função do corpo enquanto texto, e os modos pelos quais são discursivizados os corpos-padrões aceitos, bem como os corpos outsiders nos programas que compõem o corpus Extreme Makerover e Tabu América Latina -, propondo, assim, um estudo sobre os mapas de valores e os respectivos contratos comunicativos. Os percursos passionais são examinados a partir da semiótica das paixões, de Greimas e Fontanille, e as análises discursivas são realizadas com aportes de Diana Barros, David Le Breton, Beatriz Pires, Bill Nichols e Joseph Campbell, priorizando questões interacionais que concernem ao corpo enquanto instrumento de comunicação. As paixões, sejam externas ou figurativizadas pelos programas, motivam atitudes que levam o sujeito a transformar o próprio corpo, e a exposição midiática realça conceitos e valores estéticos e comportamentais que são positivados ou negativados pelo senso comum do espectador que consome esta corporeidade espetacular aportada na televisão

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:15:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Paricia Stenico do Prado.pdf: 1930894 bytes, checksum: 9dc9d1889e83628a311c233af7be2819 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research aims to investigate the contemporary notion of body presented by Vogue magazine. The body, understood beyond its biological aspect, can be considered - inspired by corpomídia theory of Helena Katz and Christine Greiner, which analyzes the corporeality in relation to communication - as the result of its interaction with the environment in which it is inserted and the culture. There is no division between body and culture, as one becomes the other. Thereby, it‟s possible to be thought as transitional and specific, generated in the interactions of which it is part. A historical analysis of corporeality shows how the society transformations passes through are able to operate significant changes in ways of seeing/ think and deal with the body. The media, for its turn, plays an increasingly inflated role as an important way of dissemination, maintenance and even revolution of the body notions The biopolitics convocations, as José Luiz Aidar Prado says, is one of the media facets that exercise power over the contemporary body, leading to outline the ways of living that culminate in the privileged ideal of attention. Therefore, the fundamental objective of the study is to analyze the speech about the ocidental body that Vogue magazine features during the twenty-first century, relating it to the notion of a corporeality that is changeable and that must be considered in accordance to the lived moment by proposing a critical analysis. In order to fulfill an historical background the authors selected were Denise Bernuzzi de Sant'Anna, Nikolas Rose, Michel Foucault and also some authors that worked for the History of the Body collection (organized by Jean-Jacques Courtine, Alain Corbin and Georges Vigarello). The discourse analysis were made based in the works of Helena Katz, Gilles Lipovetsky, Nikolas Rose, David Le Breton, José Luiz Aidar Prado and Jurandir Freire Costa. Vogue shows concepts of bodies who value the thinness, youth and smooth skin, conquered through body manipulation and constant consumption. Although some positivity certainly can be found in worship to contemporary body, the privilege of only one type of body as valid and desirable places in the darkness all other possibilities of bodily existence. Observing this situation allows to build a critique that aims to liberty and to the emancipation of corporeality. Prizes by the need to see what is hidden beneath the visible body / A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo investigar a noção de corpo contemporâneo apresentada pela revista Vogue. O corpo, analisado além de seu aspecto biológico, pode ser considerado inspirado pela teoria corpomídia de Helena Katz e Christine Greiner, que analisa a corporalidade em relação à comunicação como o resultado de sua interação com o ambiente em que está inserido e a cultura. Não há divisão entre corpo e cultura, já que um torna-se o outro. É dessa maneira que é possível pensá-lo como transitório e específico, gerado nas interações das quais faz parte. Uma análise histórica da corporalidade mostra como as transformações pelas quais a sociedade passa são capazes de operar mudanças significativas nos modos de ver/tratar e pensar o corpo. A mídia, por sua vez, tem seu papel cada vez mais inflacionado como importante meio de disseminação, manutenção e mesmo de revolução das noções de corpo. As convocações biopolíticas, das quais fala José Luiz Aidar Prado, são uma das facetas da mídia que exercem poder sobre o corpo contemporâneo, tratando de delinear os modos de viver que culminam no ideal privilegiado de atenção. Dessa forma, o objetivo fundamental do estudo é analisar o discurso sobre o corpo ocidental que a revista selecionada apresenta durante o século XXI, relacionando-o à noção de corporalidade mutável e em consonância ao momento vivido, propondo uma análise crítica do mesmo. O percurso histórico é baseado nas obras de Denise Bernuzzi de Sant‟Anna, Nikolas Rose, Michel Foucault e em alguns artigos da coletânea História do Corpo (organizada por Jean-Jacques Courtine, Alain Corbin e Georges Vigarello). As análises dos discursos são feitas a partir das obras de Helena Katz, Gilles Lipovetsky, Nikolas Rose, David Le Breton, José Luiz Aidar Prado e Jurandir Freire Costa. Vogue exibe corpos que prezam pela magreza, juventude e pele lisa, conquistados através da manipulação corporal e do consumo constante. Apesar de, certamente, haver certa positividade no culto ao corpo contemporâneo, o privilégio de apenas um tipo de corpo como válido e desejável, coloca na escuridão todas as outras possibilidades de existência corporal. Observar tal situação permite construir uma crítica que visa a liberdade e a emancipação da corporalidade. Preza-se pela necessidade de enxergar o que está escondido por baixo do corpo visível

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:18:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo Paes de Barros.pdf: 7912488 bytes, checksum: 647db5a5ed6f04a02af66490ce9b9bcb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research intends to examine the discursive construction ways of figures of professional success in news coverage of the Brazilian weekly magazine Veja between 1968 and 2007. Those figures are individuals and companies of solid success highlighted by the announcer because of competence, high position in acting area, steady financial condition and so on. Using discourse analysis, this study aims to analyze how Veja establishes themes and figures of success, outlining, through the magazine speaker perspective, the communication contract established between the magazine and readers. From the narrative point of view, this work investigates which are the subjects and their valuable goods and how specificities are build (how to become a figure of success, how to reach that stage, what it means to be such a figure, etc.), and trace the passionate way of the characters of the narrative, linking such analysis to the figurative and thematic construction, to finally understand the reason for the prominence of the character and the kind of success made visible by the media, from the examination of the simulacra of success actually built by the reports / Esta pesquisa busca examinar os modos de construção discursiva das figuras do sucesso profissional nas reportagens de capa da revista semanal Veja, da Editora Abril, entre 1968 e 2007. São consideradas figuras de sucesso as pessoas físicas e jurídicas destacadas pelo enunciador tendo em vista a competência, alta posição na área de atuação, elevada condição financeira etc. Utilizando o método de discurso, esta pesquisa visa analisar como Veja constrói os temas e as figuras do sucesso, delineando, pela perspectiva do enunciador da revista, os contratos de comunicação estabelecidos com os leitores. Do ponto de vista narrativo, trata-se de investigar quais os sujeitos e seus objetos de valor e como são construídas as modalizações (como se tornar uma figura de sucesso, como fazer para chegar a esse patamar, o que significa ser tal figura etc.), e traçar o percurso passional dos sujeitos da narrativa, ligando tal análise à construção figurativa e temática, para entender finalmente a razão do destaque da personagem e o tipo de sucesso tornado visível pela mídia, a partir do exame dos simulacros de sucesso efetivamente construídos pelas reportagens

Jusqu’aux évènements du 11 septembre 2001, le discours produit et véhiculé par les médias saoudiens est resté figé dans un archaïsme complet, et ce tant sur le plan de la construction que celui de la transmission. Dépourvu de toute objectivité et d’inventivité, ce discours s’est distingué par son aversion pour les véritables questions sociales,politiques et culturelles qui taraudent la société saoudienne depuis que le pays est devenu le premier producteur mondial du pétrole et le premier importateur – dans la région du Golfe Arabo-persique - des produits manufacturés.Le présent travail tente de donner une lecture de l’évolution du discours des médias saoudiens après les évènements de 11 septembre 2001. Un corpus de 113 articles choisis, publiés par la presse locale, a fait l’objet d’une analyse approfondie visant à suivre cette évolution et en cerner les contours. L’examen de ce corpus nous a permis d’identifier l’émergence, au sein de la société saoudienne, de deux courants de pensée. Le premier courant est qualifié de libéral et est représenté par de nombreux intellectuels influents qui œuvrent pour plus de réformes et d’ouverture de la culture saoudienne sur l’étranger. Quant au courant opposé, il est incarné par les défenseurs d’une ligne traditionnelle qui estiment que l’ouverture sur l’Occident constituerait une menace sur l’identité et la culture saoudiennes. / Until the events of September 11, 2001, the discourse conveyed by the Saudi media has remained confined in a complete archaism, both on the level of construction and transmission. Devoid of any objectivity and creativity, this discourse has been characterized by its aversion for the real social, political and cultural issues that havepreoccupied the Saudi society since this country became the first oil producer in the world and the first importer-in the Arab Persian Gulf- of manufactured products.This work attempts to provide a reading of the evolution of the Saudi media discourse after the events of September 11, 2001. A corpus of 113 selected articles published by the local press has been given a thorough analysis to follow this evolution and identify its contours. The examination of this corpus has allowed us to identify the emergence, within the Saudi society, of two modes of thinking. The first one is qualified as liberal andis represented by many influential intellectuals working for more reforms and for the opening of the Saudi culture to the outside. As for the opposite mode of thinking, it is embodied by the defenders of a traditional line who estimate that the opening to the West would constitute a threat to the Saudi identity and culture.

La thèse propose d’étudier l’émergence et la circulation du syntagme printemps arabe(s) comme dénomination événementielle dans la presse écrite. Elle a pour objectif principal d’examiner le processus de dénomination et de qualification des événements historiques dans et par les médias représentés ici par la presse écrite, en retraçant le parcours d’un syntagme-clé de l’Histoire immédiate. L’étude s’inscrit dans le domaine de l’analyse linguistique des discours médiatiques. Elle fait appel à plusieurs champs théoriques croisant sciences du langage et sciences de l’information et de la communication. La démarche relève de l’analyse du discours comme domaine de recherche - sur la langue, le discours et le sens - ancré dans les sciences du langage, où le traitement automatique se présente comme un outil d’investigation. Le corpus d’étude est formé d’un ensemble de textes de la presse écrite internationale d’expression française, arabe et dans une moindre mesure anglaise. Au-delà de cette étude de cas, l’étude sert d’exemple d’analyse lexico-discursive de la nomination des événements dans la presse écrite, comme de l’émergence et de la circulation d’un syntagme dénominatif lié à un moment historique et dont l’impact dépasse les frontières du monde arabe. / The thesis proposes to study the emergence and the circulation of Arab Spring phrase as event denomination in the press. Its main objective is to examine the process of naming and qualifying historical events in the media represented here by the written press. Going back over the course of a key phrase in the immediate history is the central object of the study.The research is a case of media discourse analysis. It uses several theoretical fields crossing language sciences and communication sciences. The approach is based on the analysis of discourse as a field of research - on language, discourse and meaning - rooted in the language sciences, where automatic processing presents a tool for study. The corpus of study is composed of the texts of the international written press.Beyond this specific case, the study serves as an example of lexical and discursive analysis of naming events in the written press, as well as the emergence and circulation of a denominational phrase associated with a historical moment.

The role of a political leader often is associated with the emotional attributes of a man, and there is empirical evidence that media coverage reinforces culture-specific emotion display rules for politicians. Feminist communication scholarship also has shown the gendered assumptions manifest in mediated discourses. This dissertation explores the relationship between gender, culture and candidates’ emotionality by examining and comparing news media coverage of the emotional management of Chile’s Michelle Bachelet and the United States’ Hillary Clinton, two female candidates with a viable bid for the presidency in their respective countries. Using a discourse analysis of 1,676 items from national newspapers, news magazines and television newscasts, this study found that cultural differences influence the discursive constructions of these women candidates’ emotionality. In the case of Bachelet, she was deemed as a soft, empathic and ultimately “feminine” candidate who needed to toughen up to convey authority and convince voters that she had the skills, in addition to the charm, to lead a country. In the case of Clinton, she was described mainly as a cold and unsympathetic contender, an unwomanly woman with too much ambition to be likable, and who was portrayed either as fake or frail when being more emotionally open. These mediated discourses suggest the media favored determined understandings for a woman’s place and role, reinforcing socially-shared and culturally-bound meanings about gendered identities. Informed by a feminist theoretical framework, the discussion addresses how these mediated discourses on Bachelet and Clinton illustrate the power of culturally-sanctioned sexism in Chile and the United States to make of gender a restrictive force that keeps women out of the realms of politics and policy. / text

The present study aims at the discussion of the contemporary forms of construction of selfidentity through the perspective prompted by the transformations ocurring in the health field. The increasing influence of the health promotional discourses in the media is reflected in the personal sphere, through the popularization of the “healthy lifestyles”. These are understood as supporting the construction of late modern identities. Within this phenomenon, we discuss the specific implications of the health eating discourse as portrayed in a specialized publication, attempting to the overlapping connections between lifestyle, food and discourse in the shaping of self-identities. Through this perspective, food is approached as bearing fundamental implications to the constitution of the individual. The present study is placed within the sociological theories on late modernity, the discourse analysis theories and the media as the provider of the symbolic content. / O presente estudo tem por objetivo discutir as formas de construção de identidade pessoal na contemporaneidade através da perspectiva das mudanças que ocorrem no campo da saúde. A crescente influência do discurso da promoção da saúde na mídia se reflete na esfera pessoal através da popularização dos “estilos de vida saudáveis”, que são observados como oferecendo um suporte para as identidades na modernidade tardia. Dentro deste fenômeno, discutimos as implicações específicas do discurso acerca da alimentação saudável em uma publicação especializada, atentando para as relações que se sobrepõem entre estilos de vida, comida e discurso como centrais para a constituição da identidade. A comida, nesta perspectiva, é vista a partir de suas implicações simbólicas para a constituição do indivíduo. Este estudo posiciona-se dentro das teorias sociológicas sobre a modernidade tardia, as teorias da análise de discurso e o campo da mídia como provedor do material simbólico. / Den aktuella studien syftar på att diskutera nutida form av konstruktion av självidentitet i mediala texter. Från det här perspektivet utgör hälsofrämjande diskurser ett verktyg för att bygga uppfattningar om sig själv där mat är ett särskilt viktigt symboliskt objekt i detta projekt. Inom detta fenomen, diskuteras den specifika innebörden av meddelanden kring hälsosam kosthållning som framförs i ett specialiserat tidningsmagasin. Fokus är på de överskridande förhållandena mellan livstil, mat och diskurser i skapandet av självidentitet. Studien befinner sig inom sociologiska teorier om senmodernitet, teorier om diskursanalys och media som en instans där symboliskt innehåll om subjektiviteter kan hittas.

The purpose of the study is to analyse the relationship between the capitalist hegemonic order and the mass media, with the latter restricted to two elite newspapers (Swedish DN and Slovenian Delo) and the selection of news materials from three bodies of international media coverage: NATO’s military intervention in former Yugoslavia, 1999, the political demonstrations against the IMF and the World Bank in Prague, 2000, and 9/11, 2001. There are two sub-purposes, one theoretical-methodological and one political-democratic. The first sub-purpose is to accomplish an integrative kind of media analysis (Williams 1977) in which the approaches of political economy (emphasising the economic/material) and cultural studies/discourse analysis (emphasising the symbolic/discursive) are supposed to interact. The hypothesis is that such a ‘third way’ approach is possible to achieve through the qualitative analysis of journalistic modes of writing. The second sub-purpose (the political-democratic one) takes an interest in the modes’ political dimensions. In what manners do the identified modes counter-act, or co-produce, miscellaneous political struggles? In addition, the purpose of the study also includes a more practical dimension. In the light of the results, how should one nowadays imagine an emancipating kind of journalism that tries to explain, unmask, or even counteract the mechanisms of the contemporary global capitalist system? The news media material consists of 438 items (articles, photos etc.), which are analysed by means of a cultural materialist CDA (critical discourse analysis). An identified journalistic mode is analysed as: (1) a practice with certain cognitive, discursive and linguistic characteristics, (2) a structural product (as constituted by underlying social and material structures), and (3) a dialectical force, being a potentially active part of an ongoing mode of production (the capitalist or another mode). The last analytical moment is the central one. Two categories of journalistic modes are identified. To begin with, the modes of de-permanence (The Remote control mode, Differentiation, Semiotic compression), which comprises modes that are part of the ‘new economy’, of reflexivity, individualism, consumption, mobility, and flexibility. The political dimension of these modes is that they counteract radical (leftist) politics by reducing emancipation, freedom, justice etc. to a matter of individualism and privatisation. The second category is the modes of permanence (Disconnection, Cognitive recycling), which involves an opposing structural dimension of the capitalist system: the production of reification, i.e. the repression of the complex nature of reality – how seemingly autonomous ‘things’ (spaces, objects etc.) are de facto interwoven with a ‘complex whole’ of various social, material, cultural, economic relations that are in constant motion. More precisely, the here identified modes reify and eternalise an explanatory structure (the modern division of explanatory labour), a particular power (the US) and a particular territory (the nation state), generating the impression that social reality works ‘as usual’ while repressing the complex network-like development of global capitalism and its impact on our lives. By sustaining these increasingly archaic structures, what is politically counteracted is the emergence of ‘the new’: transnational politics and democracy (Beck 1998). The analysis of modes (in total 8) furthermore demonstrates that Swedish DN is more integrated with the capitalist system than Slovenian Delo. The study emphasises the democratic importance of creating new journalistic modes endowed with a transnational journalistic epistemology that decisively include the reality of global capitalism in everyday (local) news reporting when covering and explaining social, political, cultural etc. issues.

Syftet med denna undersökning är att genom en kritisk diskursanalys av utvalda tidningsartiklar, redogöra för framställningen av Islamiska Staten (IS) i Irak och Syrien. Det avses genomföras i identifiering och analysering av framträdande diskurser i textmaterialet. Undersökningens kritiska ambitioner ligger i ett synliggörande av medias maktposition i samhället med fokus på diskursen om Islam och muslimer. Media tenderar att presentera en bild av IS och tillhörande diskurser utifrån ett västerländskt perspektiv, vilket ger upphov till ett skillnadskapande av ‘vi och dom‘. Västvärlden, i synnerhet Europa och Sverige intar en dominant ställning i textmaterialet och blir på så vis en västerländsk norm. Genom att tilldela aktörer och händelser diverse negativa attribut kan media på så vis ge en orättvis bild av Islam och muslimer, språket är på så vis ett maktredskap. Det är därför viktigt att föra en kritisk diskussion i skolan om hur media påverkar människors förståelse av samhället och religiösa yttringar.  Därav är en undersökning som denna viktig för utbildningsväsendet, för att lyfta hur diskurser har makten att påverka människan och dennes syn på verkligheten och omvärlden.