Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:06:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CarmemDSH.pdf: 586657 bytes, checksum: 2b3c0adb78ff513412c87eecb6131475 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-03-06 / This research analyses the silencehood use by the A Rep?blica journal (Natal/RN), today not being distributed, during the Second World War. Its objective is to unveil the production condition of the news texts, and it was observed that the use of silencehood as a speech strategy with its implications that falls upon the way of behaving and thinking of the society, all that time, influencing the reader in the construction of his image of the reality. During the coverage of the conflict by the local journal it was possible to also observe different speech marks that represented the change in attitude of the Brazilian Government, responsible for the control of what was spread as news. The country lived the dictatorship of the New State and as the war went on the government changed its speech, according to political, social and economical interest s thoughts being played, silencing themes in the name of the national security. We admit as research material journalistic texts that refer to the main facts that occurred during the six years of the world conflict and that is why we used as theoric-metodological support the Speech Analysis / Este trabalho analisa a utiliza??o do silenciamento pelo jornal A Rep?blica (Natal/RN), hoje sem circula??o, durante a cobertura da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Objetivando desvendar as condi??es de produ??o dos textos noticiosos, observou-se o uso do silenciamento como estrat?gia discursiva, cujas implica??es reca?am sobre o modo de agir e pensar da sociedade, ? ?poca, influenciando o leitor na constru??o de sua imagem da realidade. Durante a cobertura do conflito pelo jornal natalense, foi poss?vel observar, ainda, marcas discursivas distintas que representavam a mudan?a de atitude do Governo Brasileiro, respons?vel pelo controle do que era noticiado. O pa?s vivia a ditadura do Estado Novo e, face ao desenrolar da guerra, o governo mudava seu discurso, atendendo aos seus interesses pol?ticos, econ?micos e sociais em jogo, silenciando temas em nome da unidade e seguran?a nacional. Admitimos como material de an?lise textos jornal?sticos referentes aos principais fatos ocorridos durante os seis anos em que se deu o conflito mundial e, para tanto, utilizamos como suporte te?rico-metodol?gico a An?lise do Discurso