Reflections on the language of incivility in the pandemic: Negationism in presidential speech

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Eduardo Moura
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Estudos de Sociologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/estudos/article/view/16910
• topic: Norbert Elias; Política; Incivilidade; Governo; Pandemia; Norbert Elias; Politic; Incivility; Government; Pandemic; Norbert Elias; Política; Incivilidad; Gobierno; Pandemia

This paper analyzes the relations between the statements of the former President Jair Bolsonaro during the pandemic and a language of incivility, based on the assumptions of Norbert Elias. During the Covid-19 pandemic, a set of recommendations from the World Health Organization, endorsed by epidemiologists and virologists, prescribed social isolation as fundamental to contain the infected curve. Against the backdrop of scientific guidelines, former President Jair Bolsonaro maintained a critical discourse on social isolation and focused on concentrating efforts on maintaining economic activity. In the context of a crisis caused by the pandemic, non-compliance and disallowance of certain norms are re-examined in the light of the hypothesis of a language of incivility, which suggests the importance of revisiting Elias's work with special attention to the analytical performance of the theory of civilizing processes for think about adherence to health standards throughout the pandemic.