The article aims to identify and understand the belenense discursive
practices about the plebiscite in Pará, in 2011, from the newspapers O Liberal and
Diário do Pará. Discourse is taken as a singular communicative event that involves
social actors in a specific environment. Journalism, as an act of the social word,
inscribes the self and the other in situations of co-presence and mutual affectation.
The communicational nature, proposed by Vera França, was adopted as a
theoretical-methodological stance. The Critical Discourse Studies, proposed by Van
Dijk, was used as data collection technique. The results indicated that the two
newspapers built discourses contrary to the Pará division. O Liberal evidenced the
market interest and political positioning according to the state government, treating
Carajás and Tapajós as outsiders. Diário do Pará adopted an eminently political
stance, in accordance with the interests of the RBA Group.
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