The Subliminal construction of the “backwardness” in the news from El Universal on the Venezuelan constitutional reform of 2007

Authors

  • Gláucia da Silva Mendes UFRJ

Keywords:

Journalism. Construction of reality. Liberal ideology. Hugo Chavez government

Abstract

This paper analyzes the representation built by Venezuelan newspaper El Universal about the constitutional reform proposed by Hugo Chavez in 2007. It starts with the assumption that the news reproduces the discourse of “backwardness” associated by liberal ideology with the anti-liberal models that thrived in Latin America in other historical moments. To check it out, it undertakes an analysis based on the fundamentals of the French school of discourse analysis. The study showed that the majority discursive marks in coverage associate to the reform the main arguments of liberal ideology in the criticism of anti-liberal models. It follows that, when these senses are reverberate, El Universal reproduces, in a subliminal way, the discourse of “backwardness”.

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Author Biography

Gláucia da Silva Mendes, UFRJ

Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-graduação em Comunicação e Cultura da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Mestre em Comunicação e jornalista pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF).

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Published

2011-07-21

How to Cite

MENDES, G. da S. The Subliminal construction of the “backwardness” in the news from El Universal on the Venezuelan constitutional reform of 2007. Em Questão, Porto Alegre, v. 17, n. 1, p. 111–126, 2011. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/18816. Acesso em: 10 may. 2025.

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Vol. 17 No. 1 (2011)

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