ABSTRACT

This article analyzes the discursive representation of the homeless population in Folha de S. Paulo editorials between 2011 and 2020, using Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) and metaphor analysis as theoretical support. Editorials are texts that characterize the position of a newspaper, especially during significant and tension-filled moments for society, and are thus an essential object of investigation. The corpus of this article, part of a broader research work, comprises eight texts published over a decade. The analysis considers the following strategies and categories: ideological square (Van Dijk, 2015, 2017), interdiscursivity (Fairclough 2002, 2003), and metaphor analysis (Charteris-Black, 2004). The analyses indicate that the editorials build negative representations of the homeless population by favoring the forced displacement of the group, denying their rights, and disseminating discourses that contribute to the exclusion and naturalization of social inequality.