Online news are full of overstatements, which, according to Maingueneau (2008a), imply stressing those emphases made by the interlocutor of the source-text. Within the context of social media functioning, overstatements are often ascribed to an interlocutor who did not give that special emphasis as reported in the source-text. It is often the case that the underscored enunciation in the source-text undergoes several changes and modifications. An analysis will be thus undertaken on the manner the reports of Bandeirantes and Globo TV-transmitted political debates on the second round of the 2010 Brazilian elections were reproduced in different online news. Results show discursive maneuverings through the construction of online news that remake the scene of the TV political debates.
Overstatements; Quotes; Online news; Discursive maneuverings; Scenes
