A media script for the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil

Faced with the pandemic crisis caused by the spread of a new type of coronavirus, an undeniable representative of an imminent danger to public health, there has been a huge mobilization of the media towards disseminating information about this health crisis of global proportions. Within this context, this article aims to identify how and which socio-discursive imaginaries are activated to guide the construction of narrative scripts about the disease throughout 2021 on the covers of O Globo , a news outlet with huge diffusion in the State of Rio de Janeiro. For this mapping, this research aims to focus, from a microtextual perspective, on linguistic-discursive resources that emerge from this text, as well as dealing, in a macrotextual dimension, with the mode of narrative organization. To this end, the study is based on the theoretical-methodological framework of the Semiolinguistic Theory of Discourse Analysis (Charaudeau, 2012).