Dissertação
Relações intersemióticas em reportagens de capa de Superinteressante
Fecha
2012-02-29Registro en:
FERREIRA, Janaina Carvalho. Intersemiotic relations in feature articles from Superinteressante. 2012. 138 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras) - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, 2012.
Autor
Ferreira, Janaina Carvalho
Institución
Resumen
The main goal of the present study is to investigate the intersemiotic relations
between text and image in feature articles from the Brazilian popular science
magazine Superinteressante. The corpus consists of 12 multimodal feature articles
published between February and December, 2009. This particular time period was
chosen because in August of the same year the magazine implemented a visual
remodeling, and in order to examine to what extent this affected the roles of text and
image in the genre, we chose the six issues published immediately before the
change (from February to July, 2009 - Phase 1) and the six issues published
immediately after the change (from August to December, 2009 - Phase 2). In addition
to intersemiotic relations, we also compared the issues in terms of visual
transformations based on the Grammar of Visual Design (KRESS; VAN LEEUWEN,
1996; 2006). The analysis of the intersemiotic relations was guided by the system of
status and logico-semantic image-text relations proposed by Martinec and Salway
(2005). The results show that the visual remodeling affected the genre, as the role of
images was extended from an essentially interpersonal function in Phase 1 to greater
representational value in Phase 2, as drawings, schemes, graphs and maps carry
content which is not in the verbal language of the feature articles. The analysis of the
intersemiotic relations of two exemplars revealed that, in Phase 1, the status
between text and image is predominantly unequal, with the image being
subordinated to the text, while in Phase 2 the status between both languages is
equal. Considering logico-semantic relations, in Phase 1, most of the times the text
adds information to the image, in a logico-semantic relation of Expansion, while in
Phase 2, the information in text and image have the same level of generality, in a
logico-semantic relation of Exposition. These findings contribute to support the
argument about the increasing importance of visual language in contemporary
communication, which in turn highlight the need for the development of
multiliteracies.