On the uses (and misuses) of the journalistic scenography: satirical news and fake news
In this theoretical essay, we seek to discuss the relationship between two forms of “imitation” of the journalistic discourse: satirical news and fake news. Both discursive genres drawn on journalistic discourse to enunciate themselves, while producing completely different effects: one cau...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN) |
| Repositorio: | Cadernos de Linguística |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs3.cadernos.abralin.org:article/221 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/221 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Cenografia Discurso jornalístico Objetividade Fake News Desnotícia Scenography Journalistic discourse Objectivity Satirical News |
| Sumario: | In this theoretical essay, we seek to discuss the relationship between two forms of “imitation” of the journalistic discourse: satirical news and fake news. Both discursive genres drawn on journalistic discourse to enunciate themselves, while producing completely different effects: one causes laughter, the other, misinformation. A few problems arise: what is the gap in the journalistic field, so keen on facts and truth, that allows its complete subversion for ethical purposes so different from yours? How said gap is explored? Consequently, which are the effects and fundaments of this subversion? This essay is based on the thesis that the journalistic field is founded by breaking with an engaged discourse: it is considered that what marks the foundation of the journalistic field is the change from a discursive regime guided by the political agenda (as the publicist discourse) to one characterized by the economic competition (CHALABY, 1998). It is in this disruption that journalistic discourse establishes as the central ethical value of its practice the “norm of objectivity” (which encompasses other values, such as neutrality, balance, honesty, etc.). What we intend to expose in this essay, therefore, is that, by delegating the constitution of its scenography (i.e., the way one builds its legitimacy in front of readers) to the controling of the linguistic-discursive register, journalistic discourse opens space for other scenographic uses (such as those of satirical and fake news), of varying ethical hues, which rely on the memory of their legitimacy. |
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