Discurso, crise econômica e pandemia: o gesto de Interpretação na revista carta capital

Abstract

This research aimed at comprehending the constitutive historical determinations of the operation of the discourse which articulates the economic and/or pandemic crisis of the new coronavirus, in Brazil, stemming from statements divulged in the Carta Capital magazine, between the years 2020 and 2021. The work is related to the perspective of Discourse Analysis (DA). In the case at hand, we did a discourse analysis about the crisis and the contradictions of the capitalist social formation. For such, we had as main theoretical foundation the works by Eni Orlandi and the philosopher István Mészáros. This research’s corpus was drawn up from searches on the Carta Capital magazine’s website, in the forms of terms such as: crisis and/or economic crisis, pandemics and/or sanitary crisis, economy and pandemics, economy and Covid-19. After that stage, we set out to do the contour of the discursive materialities, which we called discursive sequences (DS). In the results, we highlighted that the discourse released by Carta Capital sought to talk about the emergence of the crisis and also to demand the government’s accountability in the linkages between the economic and pandemic crises. We have concluded that the magazine assumes a critical position, and that by questioning the meanings and actions regarding the crises in Brazil, it signals, in its discursive materiality, the opportunity of thinking about political and economic change.