Narrating the current history: The image building of social groups in conflict in the protests of June 2013 in Brazil

Abstract

The present paper aims at analyzing the representation of social groups involved in the protests in June 2013, in Brazil, trough the study of categories of mental model of events, as van Dijk – in case, participants and his actions – in media narratives. Through this analysis, the study aims to understand how the representation of these groups contributes or not to the credibility of the protests and to build the image of the groups involved in the conflict. Within the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (ACD), proposed by van Dijk, this article aims to investigate the discursive function of media narratives in the construction of image of these groups in the following magazines: Veja, Isto É, Época and Carta Capital. The analysis of these articles revealed how ideological positions of narrative’s subjects enable the division of these groups in US and THEM, based on particular visions about the event.

Keywords: protests, narratives, media discourse.