ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we investigate collaboratively, with the participation of professors Carolina Lopes Araújo and Maria Carmen Aires Gomes; researchers Daniele Mendonça and Ingrid Ramalho; and fellows Mariana Moura, Lygia Vaz, and Dara Abreu (IL/UnB), news data on homelessness in web journalism. Based on critical discursive studies, we take advantage of the research environments constituted in the Latin American Network of Critical Discourse Analysis of Poverty (REDLAD/ALED), at the Center for Language and Society Studies (NELiS/UnB), in the Laboratory of Critical Speech Studies (LabEC/UnB), and in the Post-Graduate Program in Linguistic Studies (Poslin/UFMG). Being in the nonbeing zone, the homeless population becomes a manipulative body, invisible in its lack but excessively visible in its presence, taken now as both uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous.