Os gêneros jornalísticos e as várias faces da notícia

Abstract

This study aims to be a contribution to the construction of a general tipological theory of texts, according to the postulates of the Text Linguistics. Thus, our starting point is related to the concept of discourse community proposed by Swales (1990), which establishes six criteria of analyses by which we have delimited and defined the journalistic discourse community. From that, we have studied the text categories present in the newspapers and magazines and classified them based on the tipological theory of texts proposed by Travaglia (2003a), as well as from the concept of genre by Bakhtin (1997) and Bazerman (2005). Besides such classification, we have also proposed some criteria and parameters for the definition of what a journalistic text/genre is. This way we have put together the text categories found in the newspapers and magazines as the ones which were considered journalistic, following the concept of discourse community of Swales (1990) and the difference among genre, tenor and mode, proposed by Marcuschi (2003). Finally, we have characterized the news, as a base genre in the journalism, as well as of its several faces, which we have found to be species of the news genre which are composed predominantly by the narrative type.