Abstract
This paper discloses results of a research on how Folha de São Borja (1970-) and Unión (1977-2010) newspapers covered two major border-crossing changes over Uruguai River between São Borja (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) and Santo Tomé (Corrientes, Argentina), namely: the opening of their ports for trading activities (1982) and the construction of Ponte da Integração Internacional (1997). The aim of the present article is to focus on the “border relational status”, which is a category planned to find evidences on these newspapers’ position taken about situations in the border area and about contacts with the neighbor country based on a corpus of texts. Among the results, we noted that the Brazilian newspaper emphasized integration on an international level and the Argentinian one valued the bonds between the twin cities.
Keywords
Journalism; Border press; Border; History of the press; Newspaper
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