O discurso do Governo Bolsonaro sobre a “economia” e a “pandemia”: interpretação e ideologia

Abstract

This Undergraduate Thesis will analyze the functioning of former president Jair Bolsonaro's discourse, his gestures of interpretation and the production of meanings of how statements about the economy and the new coronavirus pandemic are articulated in contradiction to the interests of workers, in order to understand the ideological positions placed on the agenda in the discursive process. Our theoretical framework is based on a critical perspective of language, the Discourse Analysis of Michel Pêcheux and Eni Orlandi, who understand discourse as symbolic work crossed by history and ideology; the historical-dialectical materialism of Marx and Engels, and their conceptions of historical materialism and ideology; and Lukács, on the social function of ideology. The corpus was made up of articles published on CNN Brasil, Folha de São Paulo, UOL and G1, which (re)produced speeches by the president at the time, Jair Bolsonaro, from the years 2020-2021. Six Representative Discursive Sequences were selected, separated into two blocks of analysis, which showed the path of the meanings, revealing the ideological position of the subject of the discourse. As a result, we noticed its metaphorical discursive mechanisms that conformed and slid the meaning towards an ideologically dominant right-wing discursive position, and its pragmatic character in defense of the demands of capital, creating effects of truth and conviction about the denial of the pandemic, in "defense" of the bourgeois economy based on "clippings" of the workers' reality.