Recontextualisation and sedimentation of discourse and social practice: how media constructs a negative representation for teacher and public school

ABSTRACT

This article explores the representation of teacher identity produced by the Brazilian media and how this representation, by being recontextualized in different genres, is reinforced and disseminated socially, including in the school environment and in the voice of teachers themselves. The theoretical background comes from Critical Genre Analysis (Bonini 2013), an approach based on the critical perspective proposed by Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough 1992, 2003), in conjunction with a genre theory. In this article we discuss how the social practice of teaching (and its main agent, the teacher) is negatively recontextualized in genres of the journalistic media (news report and reportage) and in genres from other media (cartoon, meme, video, blog post, Facebook page).

Key-words: Media discourse; Teacher representation; Recontextualization; School