Sports metaphors - war images and narratives: the use of sports language in the journalistic coverage of the USA versus Iraq war
Authors
Fernando Gonçalves Bitencourt
Abstract
This article focuses on the use of sports expressions in the press coverage of the war between the United States of America and Iraq. It is supported by an assystematic observation of the TV coverage during the war, presenting parts of the material aired by announcers, commentators and reporters, and trying to reflect on the risk of mixing the languages on the media, particularly on TV, and the dangers to the society when authorized speeches produce “reality effects”, in the sense used by Bordieu (1997a), and a “truth” with a language that wanes the pain and the death, or in one word, the barbarianism
Author Biography
Fernando Gonçalves Bitencourt
Doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social/UFSC
Pesquisador do Núcleo de Antropologia - Navi /GAU/PPGAS/UFSC
Pesquisador do Observatório da Mídia Esportiva/CDS-UFSC
Professor de Educação Física no CEFETSC/Unidade de São José
E-mail: ferbit@sj.cefetsc.edu.br
