Dialogism and Construction of Meanings in Charges of the Folha de São Paulo

Abstract

Considering the dialogism inherent in any manifestation of language, being, therefore, a condition for the construction of the effects of the text’s meanings, this article aims to analyze, from the manifestation of dialogical relations, how the senses are constructed in Folha de São Paulo. The corpus of this investigation, qualitative and descriptive, consists of four political cartoons, referring to the figure of President Jair Bolsonaro, produced in the month of January, in the year 2020, published in the Folha de São Paulo newspaper. For this, we theoretically base ourselves on the studies of Bakhtin (2016, 2018), Volóchinov (2018) and other researchers of the Bakhtinian work (BRAIT, 2005, 2016; MIOTELO, 2008), specifically considering the reflections around language, dialogism and ideology. As a result, ased on that, we found that the genre in question makes it possible to observe the manifestation of dialogical relationships, based on the (re) knowledge of the chronotope, which situates and motivates the production of the statements materialized therein, in a process of managing the multiplicity of voices it evokes. Furthermore, the meanings in the genre are also constructed thanks to the inherent ideological nature, reflecting the subjects' way of thinking and resulting from social and dialogical interactions, which emerged, in the case of the analyzed corpus, by the verbal and the visual.