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Verbal violence, configured by multiple semioses (FAIRCLOUGH, 2003) as offensive, has a useful space in the virtual environment. Anonymity and the lack of regulation of face-to-face interaction cause social agents to mobilize lexicogramatical resources, producing violent discourses. This choice can generate offenses and insults, in order to promote and perpetuate unequal power relations. This article aims to analyze copyright voices inserted in the news published by BHAZ and by news paper O Tempo, both from Belo Horizonte – MG, about a broadcast via WhatsApp of a job offer characterized as a crime of injury. It will be analyzed not only two news texts, one from each vehicle, but also the comments of internet users about this fact. For this, we will use the categories of analysis of the verbal sociodiscursive reactions (GOMES, 2020), of the representational and identificational meanings (FAIRCLOUGH, 2003) intertwined with intersectional studies (AKOTIRENE, 2019; CRENSHAW, 2002, 2004; NASH, 2008). Our analysis allowed us to observe that verbal violence is constitutive of racist and fatophobic systems of oppression, reproducing exclusive power relations that regulate bodies, ratifying the often opaque and naturalized privilege of the white and thin body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses part of a research project aiming to investigate texts about homelessness published between 2011 and 2013 in the newspapers Correio Braziliense, O Globo and Folha de S. Paulo. In this paper, we analyze only the 95 texts published in Correio Braziliense crossing the themes homelessness and violence, and the 19 images that compose these texts. To organize data, we have used software for qualitative analysis, and textual analyses were driven by critical discourse analysis and the grammar of visual design. Taken together, the results suggest the naturalization of violence against the homeless population, in a rhetorical effect of distancing, which does not provoke empathy between those who read the newspaper and the victims of the represented violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Identifications like travesty, transsexual, transgender, g0y characterize "others" who don't follow the heteronormative conception about sexual and gender identities. They constitute subversive performativities as well as political actions that denaturalize the binary, hierarchical and attributive matrix. This motivates the development of Queer researches along critical and discursive studies to problematize these new kinds of expressions of identities, and its constitution as a discursive and social processes. The objective of this paper is to present a critical analysis of the journalistic narrative about the transvestite Rogéria, in an article published in the "Vida" section, in the September issue of 2013, revised in RG magazine (Registro Geral do que interessa), a monthly publication of Carta Editorial. From the theoretical and methodological framework proposed by Chouliaraki and Fairclough (1999) and Fairclough (2003) on the dialectical relation among genre, discourse and style as practices that signify actions, representations and social identifications, we conclude that RG perpetuates an essentialist conception about sexual and gender identities, as well as restricts the construction of Rogéria to the context of concerts and shows. So, considering the media's potential to form public opinion and its predominant voice in the text, we realize that the story does not widen the debate on corporeality and gender; on the opposite, it reproduces a transvestite stereotype as an artistic allegory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]