Liberdade de expressão ou discurso de ódio? a representação do islamismo nas capas do jornal Charlie Hebdo

Abstract

This monograph proposes to analyze the discourse used on the covers of the Charlie Hebdo newspaper, from 2011 to 2015. The weekly, converted into a global symbol of freedom of speech after being the target of a massacre that killed part of the team of cartoonists, carries a long history of controversy for its offensive portrayal of public figures, politicians, religions and religious people. In the light of Critical Discourse Analysis, which expatiates about the perpetuation of social exclusion, prejudice and stigmas from the mediatic discourse; from the concepts of freedom of speech and hate speech. The covers from the aforementioned period are the object of this paper and the research aims to assess the contexts of the publications and the way Islam was represented in the newspaper.