Open AccessLiterary narrative in the daily print media: Zero Hora and Gazeta do Sul
Author(s) -
Demétrio de Azeredo Soster,
Fabiana Piccinin
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
brazilian journalism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1981-9854
pISSN - 1808-4079
DOI - 10.25200/bjr.v10n1.2014.629
Subject(s) - narrative , newspaper , journalism , meaning (existential) , identity (music) , literature , sociology , humanities , political science , art , media studies , history , aesthetics , philosophy , epistemology
This paper aims to investigate the presence of specific categories in journalistic narratives in daily newspapers – feature story and interpretative news- and their use of elements from the literary narrative. This movement presents itself as a strategy from which the devices reiterate their identity links, making possible their operations, producing new meanings and provoking differences that generate further differences. The results of the empirical research undertaken over 30 days – from September 1st to September 30th, 2010 - based on two of the main daily newspapers in Rio Grande do Sul: Zero Hora, from Porto Alegre, and Gazeta do Sul, from Santa Cruz do Sul, suggest that a process of increasing complexity in journalism is at play, as revealed by the lack of journalistic categories and genres, hitherto viewed as indicators of deeper layers of meaning than textual reificators,