This study investigates a series of news reports of a well-publicised crime in Brazil where a transgender person was involved and implicitly evaluated and condemned by the semiotic resources used in the reporting of the event. Theoretical tools from critical discourse analysis, systemic functional grammar and multimodal theory are applied to the data in order to investigate how verbal and other semiotic resources interpret the story. The findings point to partiality and manipulation when it comes to supporting one of the sides involved in the crime to the detriment of the transgender social actress. Her nonnormative gender identity is represented as a core part of her criminal identity. Through these representations, the media reinforces bias and reproduces biased discourses against travestis, a community that constitutes a permanent zone of abjection, a process through which those deemed unintelligible are excluded by identificatory regimes to delimit the boundaries of the self.

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屈辱与谴责：巴西跨性别罪犯的媒体报道

本研究调查了一系列关于在巴西广为人知的犯罪的新闻报道，其中涉及一名跨性别者，并受到事件报道中使用的符号学资源的暗中评估和谴责。来自批判性话语分析、系统功能语法和多模态理论的理论工具被应用于数据，以研究语言和其他符号资源如何解释故事。调查结果表明，在支持参与犯罪的一方损害变性社会女演员的利益时，存在偏袒和操纵。她的非规范性别认同是她犯罪身份的核心部分。通过这些表述，媒体强化了偏见，并再现了反对 travestis 的偏见话语，