OVID-19 PANDEMIC IN BRAZIL: the sociodiscursive representation and enunciative strategies in political discourse
Discourse Analysis, Semiolinguistic Theory, Political Discourse, Interdiscursivity, dialogism, Ethos, Pathos, Sociodiscursive Imaginaries.
“It's just a gripezinha”, “Whoever is on the right takes chloroquine, whoever is on the left takes tubaína”, “If the economy sinks, Brazil sinks.” As a kind of verbal virus, the statements of the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, were repeated countless times, circulating in different ways - during statements on national radio and television channels, in interviews with the media or in their periodic lives posted on their social networks. will be our object of linguistic study. Based on Discourse Analysis (AD), more specifically Charaudeau's Semiolinguistic Theory, this research project aims to show how enunciative strategies operated political discourse, as a language act, during the covid pandemic. -19 in Brazil. Political discourse has been central in this Brazilian socio-historical moment, especially when the enunciating subject is the President of the Republic. the ones listed for analysis go through interdiscursivity and dialogism; the construction of the self-image of an ethos of credibility and the pathetic elements staged in a populist political discourse; all strategies relating to each other and establishing sociodiscursive imaginaries.