Apropriação da análise de discurso crítica em uma discussão sobre comunicação social.

In order to understand how street papers represent homelessness and to what extent provide space for homeless people self-represention, a qualitative research investigating five newspapers and magazines published in Brazil and Portugal was held. For this paper, we composed a corpus of five consecutive volumes of the newspaper O Trecheiro. Based on Critical Discourse Analysis, we investigate the representation of homelessness in these volumes of the journal, exploring the analytical categories lexicon, intertextuality, representation of social actors and interdiscursivity. The inclusion of voices of people in homelessness in the texts of the newspaper opens space for their self-representation, which allows the materialization of other narratives, by other experiential prisms. In this space, homeless readers can see themselves represented; they can construct alternative modes of identification, based on other particular modes of representation (discourses), far beyond those which dehumanize them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]