Global Journal of Human Social Science, G: Linguistics and Education, Volume 23 Issue 8

Discursive Walls: Mapping Trans Coverage through Folha de S. Paulo between 1960 and 2017 Daniela Picchiai α & Diogo Azoubel σ Abstract- This mapping covers almost 6 thousand trans cover texts published in Folha de S. Paulo between 1960 and 2017 and is part of the understanding of the media as a fundamental agent in the sphere of representations, directly influencing the dynamics of contemporary societies. The reflection on the discourse and narratives conveyed in this periodical, in which transvestites and transsexuals gradually migrate from associations to arts and shows (23.19% of occurrences), becoming associated with marginality and criminality (36, 88% of the total), in the fait divers , reveals the discursive flow of the citations towards the ads of prostitution, a fact that invites us to go through this historical narrative to problematize how such contents are configured today. Keywords: content analysis; folha de S. Paulo; transvestites and transsexuals. I. I ntroduction he subject of this research is the coverage of the trans community done by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo. However, this is just a cut given to broader research in which different means of communication, from independent to mainstream. The research material was extracted from the thesis of author Daniela Picchiai entitled: Said about and said by: the affective rend of trans women in the media discourses. In this sense, the analyzes made are not far from community media (COVER, 2002). In this first stage, we invested in an inductive analysis based on the coverage of articles that referred to transvestites and transsexuals between the years 1960 and 2017. Regarding the extensive period analyzed, we are propose to share this initial panoramic mapping with Bardin (2016), to subsidize more in-depth research on the configuration of national journalism in this issue. To understand the role of journalism in the construction of subjectivities, we use the method of the monographic procedure through review of authors such as Guattari (1986), Hardt (2000), Lazzarato (2006), Negri (2205) and Lago & Benetti (2010). Specifically, about the collection of the data, is due over the 2016/2017 biennium, having been concluded in December 2017, in the digital collection (https://acervo.folha.com.br/index.do ) of Folha de S. Paulo from the search for the terms transvestite and transsexual from March 1960 to December 2017. After identifying the news in which such terms occur, during the pre-analysis of the data, materials to which they are referred no more than once or twice were discarded. The established corpus is referred to in Data table I , where it is possible to discuss its distribution and predominance by editor and year. There are more than 6 thousand texts in which transvestites and transsexuals appear in the headlines, leads and/or are repeated in the journalistic text. It should be noted that, while understanding the differences between transvestites and transsexuals based on the person's own recognition and how they identify and present themselves socially, regarding journalistic coverage, both words remain linked in the journalistic narratives analyzed here and, therefore, in this text. For this reason, and to respond to the constructed research problem: how the approach to transsexuals and transvestites in Brazil is historically configured from the printed editions of the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo circulated between March 1960 and December 2017, the sections that follow were organized hierarchically from two perspectives, the temporal and the editorial, followed by the interpretation of the data, which follows temporally organize. The objectives concern: a) investigation of the focus given to this universe in what is one of the most traditional national printed journalistic vehicles; b) enumeration of the main characteristics of its coverage within the established time frame and; c) discursive problematizing of the theme through the longitudinal analysis of the articles. In this direction, the hypothesis refers to the fact that: a) Over the last few decades, what discourse has been established by the mainstream media directed at transvestite and transsexual women. B) it would be possible to affirm that the media reinforces the current sociopolitical logic for a period to reinforce its own interests or it will be possible to identify, even in some news, that journalists try to break with conservative discourses of a time. As justification for this preliminary investigation, among other points, we allude to the need to discuss the paths of national printed journalism from its practical position, through the texts it produces. Finally, about the expected results, we believe that the journalistic coverage that addresses transvestites and transsexuals positions these lives as synonymous with marginality and criminality. As limitations of the study, it should be noted that the investigation does not cover the period of the Jair T © 2023 Global Journals Volume XXIII Issue VIII Version I 9 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2023 G Author: e-mail: danipicchiai@gmail.com