Mídia Esportiva e Redemocratização: a Democracia Corinthiana na Revista Placar

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the “Democracia Corinthiana” movement, which emerged in the first half of the 1980s during the struggles for redemocratization in Brazil, and to investigate how the discourses present in Placar Magazine — the country’s leading sports publication at the time — contributed to the consolidation of this movement. To this end, around 190 editions are consulted, and 52 published between February of 1981 and April of 1985 are analyzed, when Roberto Pasqua’s slate defeated the Democracia Corinthiana slate in the Corinthians elections. This analysis examines the forms of linguistic representation present in the magazine, across both news reports and opinion articles. The methodology employs discourse analysis, drawing primarily on the concepts of Eni Orlandi (2012), which allows the identification of the frames and narrative choices that engage with the political context of the time.