Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo Silva Alves.pdf: 8485164 bytes, checksum: 35fbb9901da8a860765e149fda98a6ce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-07-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Our research aims to analyze one of the most important magazines of the twentieth century: Time Magazine. The investigations focus on the discourse of reports that emphasized the worry and discomfort of the magazine with the communist threat that hung over Brazil between the years 1958 and 1961, a moment that covers the path of the rise and output power of former President Quadros. We argue that the ideology of the magazine, known worldwide as the "American Century" - created by its owner Henry Luce - was being confronted in Latin America, particularly in Brazil, by the advance of communism and anti-American demonstrations promoted that context. Thus, Time Magazine, through their reporting on Brazil during the administration of Quadros, presented an analytical discourse about our culture, politics and economy as "risky" to U.S. interests. Such risks were related to Time Magazine troubled administration Quadros, according TIME: an eccentric. The title of this thesis "Wherefore Art Thou, Jânio?" (Why thou Jânio?), Inspired by one of his reports, research illustrates that the TIME Magazine 'organized around the personality of Quadros. Several terms, mostly pejorative, were being attributed to each offense he performed against the presence and U.S. intervention in Latin America / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar uma das mais importantes revistas do século XX: a Time Magazine. As investigações estão concentradas no discurso das reportagens que realçavam a preocupação da revista com a ameaça comunista que pairava sobre o Brasil entre os anos de 1958 e 1961, período que abrange a ascensão e a saída do poder do ex-presidente Jânio Quadros. Defendemos que o ideário da revista, mundialmente conhecido como Século Americano - criado pelo seu proprietário Henry Luce - estava sendo confrontado na América Latina, em particular no Brasil, pelo avanço do comunismo e das manifestações antiamericanas promovidas naquele contexto. Desse modo, a Time Magazine, por meio de suas reportagens sobre o Brasil durante a gestão de Jânio Quadros, apresentava um discurso analítico a respeito de nossa cultura, política e economia como arriscados aos interesses norte-americanos. Esses riscos foram relacionados pela revista Time à conturbada administração de Jânio Quadros, segundo a revista: um excêntrico. O título desta tese Wherefore Art Thou, Jânio?, (Por que tu, Jânio?), inspirado em uma de suas reportagens, ilustra a investigação que a revista Time promoveu em torno da personalidade de Jânio Quadros. Inúmeros adjetivos, em sua maioria pejorativos, foram sendo-lhe atribuídos a cada ofensiva que ele realizava contra a presença e a intervenção norteamericana na America Latina

Detroit's shocking decline has been a topic of national concern for several decades now, but attention paid to the city's problems reached new levels when the American public learned that the U.S. automotive industry was in jeopardy, eventually needing more than $17 billion in loans from the United States government to stay afloat. Once the fourth largest city in the United States, the Motor City ushered in the twenty-first century with half the number of residents it had just fifty years before and new monikers like Murder City that mocked the city's formerly heroic identity. To the nation, Detroit was dying, and its failure to live up to its potential as a thriving metropolis demanded the public's mournful attention. How had a city that was once mighty fallen so far? The purpose of this thesis is to understand what meanings media texts attribute to Detroit, how they negotiate its symbolic value in the American narrative, and what functions they perform in the public sphere by contributing to national discourse in these ways. The nation has been told it should care about the city's recovery, which begs the question: Why? Why does Detroit matter? Drawing primarily from memory studies and integrating urban history, sociology, and ruin studies, this thesis performs a rhetorical analysis of four case studies that negotiate the meaning of Detroit as public discourse. This thesis argues that narratives of Detroit implicitly placate a country in crisis and reinforce the continued relevance of American values--individualism, capitalism, and post-racial multiculturalism--to the new world order. These cultural texts implicitly ask: Are we the superpower we were when Detroit stood at the helm of our empire? If not, who or what can we blame for the overthrow of the nation? In this way, media discourses on Detroit function to negotiate a transitioning national identity and restore social order by resolving the questions that Detroit's demise evokes, determining its impact--symbolic and otherwise--on the future of the country, and assessing the state of the nation. / Mass Media and Communication

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Renata Condi de Souza.pdf: 3984047 bytes, checksum: 6047e19d34309900f4073356db619a99 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This thesis aims to analyze TIME magazine through its cover stories in search for the dimensions of linguistic variation of all of its texts since the beginning of its publication, in February 1923, to April 2011. To meet this goal, the research is based on Corpus Linguistics, an area of Applied Linguistics which sees language as a probability system and whose studies involve the use of computational tools and collections of texts held in electronic format (corpora). The research also finds support in Multidimensional Analysis, a corpus linguistic approach that allows the study of the dimensions of variation in large amounts of texts by means of statistical procedures in order to map the associations between linguistic features and registers. The methodology includes mass data collection of TIME magazine texts on the Internet through scripts and a range of analyses through Factor Analysis, Analysis of Variance and Cluster Analysis. The first part of the analysis aims at placing the corpus along the five main dimensions of variation defined by Biber in 1988, which apply to English as a whole. The second part of the analysis seeks to determine the dimensions of variation that are specific to TIME magazine as well as check the role of external circumstances, such as editorial, political, economic and social events. This reveals five dimensions, namely: person-oriented discourse versus discussion-oriented discourse, opinion-based stance, argumentative discourse versus action-oriented discourse, idea-oriented discourse versus actionoriented discourse, and covert persuasion versus informational reporting. Other analyses identify the ranges of variation within the dimensions, as well as the text types that are inherent in TIME magazine / Esta tese objetiva à análise da revista TIME através das suas matérias de capa em busca pelas dimensões de variação linguística desde o início de sua publicação, em fevereiro de 1923, até abril de 2011. Para tanto, a pesquisa se fundamenta na Linguística de Corpus, área da Linguística Aplicada por meio da qual a língua é vista como um sistema probabilístico e cujos estudos envolvem o uso de ferramentas computacionais e coleções de textos em formato eletrônico (corpora). A pesquisa também se fundamenta na Análise Multidimensional, uma abordagem metodológica baseada em corpus que permite o estudo das dimensões de variação em grandes quantidades de textos por meio de procedimentos estatísticos com o intuito de mapear as associações existentes entre características linguísticas e registros. A metodologia utilizada inclui a coleta em massa de textos da revista TIME na Internet por meio de scripts e suas análises através da Análise Fatorial, Análise de Variância e Análise de Agrupamento. A primeira parte da análise tem como objetivo localizar o corpus dentre as cinco principais dimensões de variação definidas por Biber, em 1988, e que se aplicam à Língua Inglesa como um todo. A segunda etapa da análise busca determinar as dimensões de variação específicas à revista TIME, assim como verificar o papel de fatores externos, tais como questões editoriais, políticas, econômicas e sociais. Esta análise revela cinco dimensões, a saber: discurso orientado por pessoa versus discurso orientado por discussão, posicionamento opinativo, discurso argumentativo versus discurso narrativo, discurso orientado por ideias versus discurso orientado por ações e persuasão implícita versus escrita informacional. Outras análises identificam as faixas de variação dentro das dimensões e os tipos de textos inerentes à revista TIME

In this essay, I examine the ways in which new myths were made of Barack Obama in the months leading up to, and immediately following, the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election at three sites of cultural production: a UFO-based religious movement historically grounded in the black Israelite religious tradition, TIME magazine’s 2008 “Person of the Year” edition, and Sean Hannity’s “The Real Barack Obama” airing on the FOX News network. I argue that, while the content of these three Obama-myths varies considerable, the ways in which these myths are constructed, and function, are in fact rather similar.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:32:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Eduardo Silva Alves.pdf: 3673469 bytes, checksum: 2b81321ba0d585b70b547676c2d9b0e5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-16 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar as reportagens da Revista TIME produzidas durante os últimos seis meses do governo João Goulart (de 11 de outubro de 1963 a 10 de abril de 1964) e discutir as percepções desse veículo de comunicação em torno dos acontecimentos de ordem política, econômica e cultural no Brasil daquele momento. Dentro dessa análise, serão comentados: os interesses comerciais do grupo TIME-LIFE pelo mercado das comunicações do Brasil e o desconforto causado pela figura do Presidente João Goulart. Segundo a revista, Jango era um político inábil para dirigir um grande país e vinculou-o de forma recorrente ao comunismo. O cenário cultural daquele momento também interessou à revista, cujas percepções identificaram uma nação que fundia misticismo, violência e política