%0 Journal Article %T Representa£¿£¿o discursiva de pessoas em situa£¿£¿o de rua no "Caderno Bras¨ªlia": naturaliza£¿£¿o e expurgo do outro %A Resende %A Viviane de Melo %J Linguagem em (Dis)curso %D 2012 %I Unisul - Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina %R 10.1590/S1518-76322012000200004 %X in this paper, based upon critical discourse analysis i analyze the text "abandono no lago norte - casa que pertence ao ibama virou ponto de drogas e abrigo para moradores de rua", published in january 2011 in "caderno bras¨ªlia", a newspaper distributed for free in hundreds of spots in brasilia. the analyzed text discusses the abandonment of a public property and its consequences for the neighborhood, with reference to the "homeless". taking this analytical object, i proceed to the analysis of the representation of social actors, specifically the group classified as "homeless" in the text. i also analyze the representation of this group in the transitivity system. analyses show that the street situation, a serious contemporary social problem, is naturalized in the representation of the event in focus in the text. %K critical discourse analysis %K representation %K transitivity %K naturalization %K street situation. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1518-76322012000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en