Análise de capas da revista Veja: A construção midiática da legitimação do processo de impeachment da presidenta Dilma Rousseff à luz dos estudos bakhtinianos

Abstract

The present work aims to investigate how a mediatic publication, magazine Veja, mobilized resources to promoteformer president Dilma Vana Rousseff (governing from 2011 to 2016) process of impeachment. The corpus analyzed contains 14 covers of the said magazine. With the goal of reaching the proposed target, we used theoretical studies by the BakhtinCircle, more specifically the dialogical theory of language, with a special emphasis on the notions of dialogical relations and speech genre. During the construction of the corpus, we considered the choice of that information vehicleto represent Brazilian media and the speech genre to be examined so as to reveal the positioning of the vehicle in the universe of media aiming to legitimize an impeachment process motivated by a very weaklegal argument. With regard to the considerations that we were able to devvelopat the end of the analysis of the covers, we can say that magazine Veja ran away from impartiality, which is claimed to be the hallmark of information journalism and has not fulfilled its social responsibility of guiding readers’ understanding. The magazine clearly shows to be part ofthe body of Roussef’spolitical opponents.