Discurso presidencial: a imagem da mulher em cena

Abstract

This work is based on studies of French Discourse Analysis and aims at analyzing the first four speeches of President Dilma Vana Rousseff, pronounced on her victory in the 2010 presidential elections. The reason that motivated us to do this study was the possibility of understanding the changes in partisan political discourse of Brazil recent history, the moment when lawyers, engineers, former metalworker and only one woman were elected to the highest office of the Federal Republic of Brazil. We understand that a research like this can be useful for a better understanding not only of speech studies, but also the current party-political panorama of Brazil. Our specific objectives were: to identify and examine the construction of scenography and the constitution of discursive ethos; verify the linguistic-discursive strategies and to infer meaning effects created by the interdiscourse enunciator, and, from that route, unveiling the slips and subversions of meaning embodied in president speech and relate them to social and discursive memory. The results of the analysis allowed us to conclude that the emerging enunciator from Dilma Rousseff speech has a discursive ethos of "President of the continuity of Lula government." The life history of the enunciator and its woman condition act on her image ambiguously: sometimes strengthens and sometimes harms. The male social imaginary in policy still influences the discursive ethos legitimized by coenunciator (voter), even a speech with placements built around the premise "first Brazil female president