Scientific divulgation in the magazine Ciência Popular: themes related to the supernatural
Popular Science. Supernatural. Scientific divulgation. Speech. Graphic aspects.
This documentary work’s goal is to analyze the magazine Ciência Popular as a scientific divulgation speech, which has as case study the approach of supernatural themes. This brazilian periodic was published in the post Second World War period, between 1948 and 1960. The research counts with Ciência Popular’s collections available at Historical Library of the State Public Library of Minas Gerais and Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, MG. This dissertation's first step is the study of scientific divulgation's concept and the action field's contextualization in the post War’s period. Furthermore, the general features of Popular Science are studied, and also the connection between graphic aspects and how they convey the editorial speech, seeing that visual elements are not considered isolated towards the speech. To delineate the period, the release editorial (n. 1, Oct. 1948) will be discursively analyze according to Eni Orlandi's theory (2013), in order to understand the magazine as a scientific divulgation object, in accordance with the proposition exposed by general-director Ary Maurell Lobo. Later, by the concepts related to “communication situation” and the organization ways of “enunciative” and “argumentative” speechs, presented by Patrick Charaudeau (2010), aims to study the producted effects about supernatural approach by speech analysis, through texts sellection of Popular Science's magazine.