Silence and Absence of Color in Journalistic Headlines of Racial Character: Authoral Wrinting Practices for Other (Res)Meanings of Meanings

Abstract

This article aims to present a writing exercise mediated by a dialogical perspective of language. For this, we use a work based on the paraphrase and the reconstruction of meanings, based on the rewriting, undertaken by a Literature scholar, of journalistic headlines of a racial character, founded on a prejudiced and exclusive view. The developed idea revolved around the resignification of meanings, taking as choices the own choices and positions of the text producer, in an authorial direction of writing. The theoretical perspective was based on the Bakhtinian conceptual categories, both with regard to the analysis of the headlines, and with regard to the meta-discursive analyzes undertaken by the author of the rewrites.