“A bridge to the future”: sense effects of the neoliberal discourse in brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Tenório Neto, João Francisco
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Ericson, Sóstenes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABRALIN (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revista.abralin.org/index.php/abralin/article/view/1739
• topic: Discurso neoliberal; “Uma ponte para o futuro”; Efeitos de sentido; Efeitos de sentido; “A bridge to the future”; Sense effects

Based on the materalistic analysis of the discourse (PÊCHEUX, 2015; 2014), this article aims to unveil the opacity of language, based on the sense effects of neoliberal discourse, in the Brazilian scenario of the 2016 coup, analyzing a corpus extracted from the document “A bridge to the future” (PMDB, 2015). Considering the domains of anticipation, actuality and memory (COURTINE, 2014), it demonstrates how the neoliberal discourse presentes itself, silencing the antagonism of social classes, while recovering a memory that historically works to reinforce a national unity in favor of a future that not enough. In the intradiscourse, the effect of actuality materializes in the present the need to break with the past, associated with PT governments, presenting a government proposal aligned with dominant interests, metaphorized on a brigde that will lead the country to development. What is taken into account, in advance, is the need to identify the working class with the needs pointed out as belonging to the whole of Brazilian society, represented by the bourgeoisie, and the defense of the political and economic interest of the national State, along the lines of the model neoliberal. For those who dare to revolt, deconstructing this bridge is the historic challenge that is set in the present time.