Semiotic representations in the genre News Report in Portuguese magazines

Abstract This paper aims to study the semiotics representations of the News Report genre. Thereunto, it analyzes two texts of this text genre of two Portuguese magazines: Visão and Sábado. For this analysis it follows the theoretical proposals of the Socio-discursive Interactionism and The Social Semiotics, including the methodological framework of The Grammar of Visual Design. Therefore, the current paper seeks to take into account the role of the nonverbal in the genre News Report and its relation to the social function of this genre. The results indicate that the meanings of representations are constructed from the social practices to meet the communicative function of the genre.