2026-06-122026-06-122025-11-28Lins, Neilton Farias.   Do silenciamento nas capas das revistas Veja e Istoé: filiações ideológicas em disputa no jogo dos sentidos / Neilton Farias Lins. – 2025.  170 f. : il.  Orientador: Sóstenes Ericson Vicente da Silva.  Dissertação (Mestrado em Letras: Linguística e Literatura) – Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Faculdade de Letras. Maceió, 2025.  Bibliografia: f. 164-170.  1. Análise materialista do discurso. 2. Silenciamento. 3. Condições de produção do discurso. 4. Veja (Revista). 5. Istoé (Revista). I. Título.https://repositorio.ifal.edu.br/handle/123456789/3087From the theoretical perspective of Materialist Discourse Analysis, this thesis investigates silence and/or silencing in the discourses conveyed on the covers of the Brazilian weekly magazines VEJA and ISTOÉ, examining the extent to which silencing on these covers produces shifts in the meaning of political or social events, generating effects of highlighting or erasing certain subject-positions. Given the need to understand silencing on the covers of VEJA and ISTOÉ, the analysis addresses how information is silenced, made implicit, or resignified to construct a specific narrative and manipulate the reader’s understanding in the formation of an imaginary that legitimizes practices of capitalist society. The thesis thus questions the process of meaning production in media discourse and its effects. The research aims to analyze how the magazines VEJA and ISTOÉ employ discursive strategies to naturalize discursive functioning for the reader, interpellating readers into pre-given subject-positions that align with dominant ideological positions. The thesis is structured into sections that explore the conditions of discourse production in the magazines, the relationship between silence and discourse on VEJA’s covers, discursive and journalistic events in ISTOÉ’s editorials, the reading of paraphrase and polysemy in ISTOÉ, VEJA’s discourse during the military dictatorship, and the role of magazine covers in capitalist society, with emphasis on the historical basis of neoliberal discourse. The research is grounded in the theoretical conceptions of Michel Pêcheux (1993) and Eni Orlandi (1999), in dialogue with, among others, Courtine (2009), Guilbert and Peñafiel (2019), and Guilbert (2020). The analysis made it possible to examine how silencing, conditions of production, and ideology contribute to the production of meaning and the interpretation of facts by readers. The research findings indicate that silencing is a discursive strategy that helps understand how discursive processes operate through ideology to maintain a certain status quo. Not only that, VEJA and ISTOÉ operate a systematic and ideologically oriented silencing, so that we are not facing accidental silencing, but rather structural and functional silencing serving the neoliberal project, capable of interpellating the middle/upper-class reader to assume ready-made subject-positions, naturalizing the bourgeois order of legitimizing inequalities, criminalizing social movements, delegitimizing progressive governments, etc. In this sense, the thesis demonstrates that the silencing promoted by the respective weeklies does not merely contribute or help to maintain the status quo, it is one of the main mechanisms through which the Brazilian mainstream press actively reproduces the ideological domination of capital in contemporary Brazil.ptAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 BrazilAnálise materialista do discursoSilenciamentoCondições de produção do discursoVeja (revista)IstoÉ (revista)Materialist discourse analysisSilencingVeja and IstoÉConditions of production of discourseTeseLINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LINGUISTICA