The discursive construction of Dilma Rousseff: a systemic functional analysis of three newspapers?

Abstract

This research analyzes the representation of Dilma Rousseff, in the front page of three Minas Newspapers, after the results of the 2010 elections – Estado de Minas, Hoje em Dia and Super Notícia –, based on Systemic-Functional Linguistics (Halliday (1994) and Halliday e Matthiessen (2004)). Our objective is to understand the ideology underlying the picture construed of the social actor candidate for the presidency. The picture of Dilma Rousseff painted revealed the ideology of the owner – editor – of each newspaper revealed representing the social actor Dilma Rousseff president on your way.