“Não troque seu voto por água” um estudo semântico-enunciativo

Abstract

This study seeks to understand the process of meaning set in motion in the statement “Don't exchange your vote for water”, produced and conveyed by the Articulação Semiárido network, also known as ASA. This statement was the central theme of an awareness campaign about the elections, promoted by ASA, in 2016 and 2018, during the respective electoral periods. In order to analyze this material and its production conditions, this study is part of the Historical Semantics of Enunciation, a theory that seeks to understand the process of meaning in relation to externality. In this way, this research presents, at first, a theoretical path that seeks to show the development of the Historical Semantics of Enunciation in Brazil, and then proceeds to the analysis of that corpus. The results achieved point to the way in which the process of production of meanings was constituted in history in a struggle between human rights (water) and the duties of citizens (voting). As theoretical basis, the thought of theorists Guimarães (2004), Vogt (2009), Bréal (1992), Saussure (1916), Orlandi (1978), Pêcheux (1969), Benveniste (1966), Nascimento (2004), Massmann (2012) will be used.