The Term Diversidade (en. Diversity) and Its Displacement on News Portals: from Didactic to Polemical Discourse
João Kogawa,
Débora Kogawa,
Indaiá de Santana Bassani
Abstract:This article analyzes the polemical and didactic discourses on the materiality of the term diversidade [diversity] as it has circulated, from 2006 to 2022, on news portals. Guided theoretically by French Discourse Analysis and methodologically by the tool AntConc, the corpus indicates a mutation in the dominant meaning effects of the pivot-term as it stops participating in a completive structure such as diversidade de espécies [diversity of species] to become an intransitive word. This process involves a trans… Show more
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