Material processes in the news of the paraense newspapers about domestic violence from the ideational metafunction perspective

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the material processes in the journalistic texts of Diário Online and G1 Pará about domestic violence in order to uncover the representations of victims and aggressors conveyed in these news. The theoretical and methodological assumptions are supported by Systemic-Functional Linguistics, whose authors that guided the research were Halliday and Matthiessen (2004); Furtado da Cunha and Souza (2011); Fuzer and Cabral (2014); Eggins (2004); Thompson (2014); Bloor and Bloor (2004). The methodology focuses on documentary and descriptive research, through which seventeen news items were chosen from the mentioned media vehicles. The results indicated that the newspapers most common transitivity scheme is Goal and transitive process. It is concluded that the newspapers Diário Online and G1 Pará portrayed the main participants involved in the cases of domestic violence through linguistic choices that contributed to particular forms of representation.