Coup or impeachment? an ideological clash from a perspective of Discourse Analysis

• Autor(a) principal: Regina Ghessi-Arroyo, Rafaela [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/245473
• topic: Coup d'etat; Controversy; Impeachment

The present work aims, based on the theoretical assumptions of the French Discourse Analysis (MAINGUENEAU, 2008), to analyze the ideological clash between those who defend the legality of the impeachment of the ex-president Dilma Rousseff in 2016, and those who believe that it is configured as a coup to democracy. The coup d'etat/Impeachment pair represents the knowledge of two Discursive Formations that are in conflict, so that in each corresponds a different way of signifying the removal of Dilma Rousseff This work defends the hypothesis of the primacy of interdiscourse (MAINGUENEAU, 2008), in which, in the perspective of a constitutive heterogeneity of the discourses, there is an inextricable relationship between the Same of the discourse and its Other; such a perspective will make it possible to understand the differences and contradictions that are set in motion in these two positions, showing the functioning of the ideology materialized in the discourse. As a corpus of analysis, publications from the social network Facebook were selected, a space that reinforces controversial issues, in addition to being a vehicle for the collective sharing of opinions and positions. With the analyses, it was possible to observe that the left DF, for example, aims to dissociate every semantic term that considers the request for impeachment to be constitutional, while its opponent integrates these terms in its speech, often integrating its Other as a form of simulacrum, which consists in criticizing not the semantics of the opposing discourse, but its intention to legitimize the right-wing discourse.