LACLAU, MOUFFE AND STRIKERS FEDERAL UNIVERSITY TEACHERS: ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF (IM)PARTIALITY IN MEDIA REPORTS

Abstract

Considering the importance of the strike movement for the formation of class consciousness, it is expected to find a plurality of voices present in the construction of meanings related to the movement. Thus, recourse to the Discourse Theory proposed by Laclau and Mouffe (1985) hoping to answer the following question: how the media masterminded the discourse about the strike 2012 federal university teachers during the four month of standstill. It is assumed a critical approach, post-structuralist and post-Marxist current matrix, adopting a qualitative research strategy. Twenty-one news were recovered in the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, hegemonic at the time of the study. Is noticeable in the articles analyzed the position of the newspaper does not show the existence of indifferent strike, especially considering the dates of the reports. However, the evidence that was given to the movement allows us to question the degree of importance that this media is provided to give. When working under the discourse of social interaction, this study aimed to analyze the (journalistic) speech as constitutionally dialogical, not necessarily polyphonic, in which the subjects engaged constantly struggle for hegemony.