Discursive strategies through news staging about Venezuelan immigration in Teresina-PI

Abstract

This article aims to analyze different news about the theme of the socio-historical, political and economic phenomenon of Venezuelan immigration in Teresina, capital of the state of Piauí, unveiling the strategies materialized in information discourses. Our main theoretical basis is Semiolinguística (Charaudeau, 2019), regarding the effects of media discourses in contemporary society as part of a process of discursive staging, in which occurs the selection of facts to be reported, as well as the dissemination of different ideologies to the consumer public. The corpus was composed of news published in different information portals of Piauí between the years 2019 and 2022, years in the first immigrants arrived to the state capital and settled in the occupation of spaces. Regarding the strategies of discursive staging, we verified how the degree of hierarchy is present in the transmission of events, as well as the presence of reports from government authorities, entities, common subjects and the immigrants themselves. We conclude that the different news portals use different discursive strategies for the construction of events, and contribute to the projection of imaginaries that shape the thought and actions of society.