A constituição do ethos retórico no discurso político do Senado Federal

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Adílson Ferreira dos
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/14628
• topic: Argumentação; Discurso político; Ethos; Discursos parlamentares; Lingua portuguesa -- Retorica; Retorica; Rhetoric; Argument; Political discourses; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LINGUA PORTUGUESA

This work is intended to identify the constitution of ethos of the Federal Senate of Brazil through the rhetoric analysis of two texts regarding to the cassation process of the Senator Renan Calheiros. The first text, published in Folha On Line on December 04th, 2007, reproduces, in the totality, the discourse of the Senator Renan Calheiros, pronounced in the Federal Senate tribune, as a manner of defense to the accusations done by his colleagues, who were in opposition to his moral behavior and, in the same way, in opposition to his parliamentary behavior. The second one, published in the O Estado de São Paulo newspaper, on December 09th, 2007, is a statement of the Senator Jefferson Peres, relater of the process against Renan Calheiros, given to the journalist Mônica Monir, at a moment of intense social indignation for the attitudes and social practices of the president of the Federal Senate in force. It was analyzed through the inductive method, the Senators discourses in the light of the New Rhetoric of Perelman and Tyteca (1996) and of the rhetoric question of Michel Meyer (1993 and 2007). Through such analysis it is possible to verify that the constitution of rhetoric ethos of the Federal Senate occurs and by the discourse in a plausible manner. In this sense, the orators try to evidence an honest and fair position, even that all circumstances socio-historic show the opposite. Concerning the specificities of the political discourse, the constitution of the image of the institution occurs through the three rhetoric proofs: ethos, logos and pathos, being ethos, according to Aristóteles, the most important due to the orator s character. The research is considered relevant, once, if the members of that parliamentary house are always concerned about their ethos before the Brazilian society, the studies on argumentation gains prominence to show to the audience the rhetoric traps of sustentation of the plausible in the discourse, once that who discourses is acting over the other, somehow, through the language. The text, on the other hand, assumes singular importance at the disclosure of the discourses pronounced by the politicians