Notícias de encantar : realidade e ficção no discurso jornalístico

Resumo

The opposition reality/fiction is often the criteria invoked to explain the dichotomy journalistic text/literary text. In accordance with this founding criteria, the texts of the mass media should report reality in a rigorous and faithful way, while storytelling is only a prerogative of literature. Using as a starting point the linguistic outline of the concept of pretending, this article attempts to verify the existence of fictional frames in texts from the press, particularly in regard to news. The images and the metaphorical language activated in this discourse, as well as the construction of universes of reference which are ontologically legitimized by the text itself, allow us unequivocally to approximate some journalistic texts with writing of a fictional nature.