Azares, riscos e culpas: representações sobre os acidentes de trabalho da construção civil na imprensa portuguesa (1996-2017)

• Main Authors: Bruno Monteiro, Carla Aurélia de Almeida
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade do Porto 2017-09-01
• Series: Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
• Subjects: written press; representations; discursive strategies; perspective
• Online Access: http://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/Sociologia/article/view/6635/6182

In this text, we analyse how the current events in the Portuguese press construct and transform the representations of labour accidents in the construction sector. From an attachment to a plurality of perspectives, we seek to understand the discursive strategies mobilized here. On the basis of a corpus of 1218 news items collected in a trade union archive, we carried out, between 1996 and 2017, a sociological critique in combination with a semantic and pragmatic analysis of the speeches produced.