Escolhas lexicais em manchetes de jornais online em casos de Feminicídio

Lexical choices in online newspaper headlines in cases of feminicide

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to survey the headlines published in online newspapers that report cases of feminicide in order to verify whether the lexical choices made by the writers of such journals imply the victim's guilt or in easing the narrated facts. For this, the adopted theoretical framework includes Biderman (1987; 1998), Zavaglia (2006), Krieger (2006; 2014) and Aragão (2016; 2020) with regard to the lexicon; Marcuschi (2008) and the functionality of the genre; Radford and Russell (1992) about feminicide; Recuero (2009) on the elements of social networks on the internet; Debord (2003) about the spectacularization conveyed in the virtual environment and Lévy (1996; 1999) in the treatment of the discourse conveyed in the virtual environment and the process of virtualization and cyberspace culture. The methodology adopted represents, as far as the objective is concerned, an exploratory research case in documentary perspective Appolinário (2009), and the constituted sample was extracted, through screen capture, from the headlines of online newspaper published between April and June 2019. The results achieved show a total of 23 headlines, which show part of the process of discursive construction adopted by writers of the media under analysis. The ongoing analysis process shows that, in the cases collected, the lexical choices provide a decrease in male guilt due to the exposure of women who have gone through this fatal process.