Banca de DEFESA: SEAN MARDEM

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STUDENT : SEAN MARDEM
DATE: 31/07/2024
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: meet.google.com/nwm-zcqq-ixo
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ARGUMENTATIVE ORIENTATION AND FALLACIOUS SPEECH ACTS IN LIVE AND ON-DEMAND BROADCAST POLITICAL JOURNALISTIC INTERVIEWS

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Argumentative Orientation. Fallacious Speech Act. Political Journalistic Interview Genre. Textual Discourse Analysis. Pragma-dialectics.

PAGES: 220
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Lingüística
SUMMARY:

This research investigates the Argumentative Orientation and Fallacious Speech Acts in a pre-election broadcast political interview by Rede Globo and available on the Globoplay platform, involving the then-incumbent candidate for re-election, Jair Bolsonaro, interviewed by journalists William Bonner and Renata Vasconcelos on August 22, 2022. The corpus consists of phonetic and multimodal transcription, following NURC (Pretti, 1999) norms, as well as orthographic and grammatical transcription. Our methodological and theoretical approach is based on Textual Discourse Analysis (TAD) by Adam (2011, 2016, 2017a, 2017b, 2019, 2022, 2023), and works by Rodrigues (2018, 2021), Rodrigues, Silva Neto, and Passeggi (2010), Rodrigues and Marquesi (2023), and Pinto, Rodrigues, and Cortez (2019). These studies form our theoretical foundation for analyses within the levels [N4] and [N5] of TAD, with a special focus on Argumentative Orientation [N8], which we also connect with pragma-dialectics through the Speech Acts theory developed by Austin (1962), Searle (1969), Vanderveken (1990, 2001), and Eemeren and Grootendorst (1984, 1992). Additionally, we incorporate the concept of the collective editorial hyper-enunciator by Maingueneau (2004) and Grice's Cooperative Principle (1989). Using an iterative-spiral methodological and epistemic approach, we employ Peirce's abduction (1997) and Ginzburg's evidential paradigm (1989) to generate hypotheses from minimal clues and test them through inductive generalizations. This methodology allows for robust theoretical integration and detailed operationalization in the analysis of argumentative texts within the political-electoral context. Our investigation focuses on examining how political argumentation develops in a socially controlled institutional interaction, contrasting with less controlled political communication genres. Our results highlight the intense argumentative dynamics in the first four thematic blocks of the interview, where a higher incidence of argumentative orientation and fallacious speech acts is observed, contrasting with a more informative and less confrontational interaction in the subsequent blocks. The interviewers' questions reflect an attempt to elicit defensive and emotional responses from the interviewee, indicating a deliberate strategy to impact public perception. The analysis reveals that the interviewee's stance is marked by strategies of evasion, denial of notorious facts, non-intentional paralogical fallacies, and eristic sophisms (ARISTÓTELES, 2016, 2019; PLANTIN, 2008; MARDEM and RODRIGUES, 2023), which consist of intentional fallacies, suggesting a possible planning of perfidious argumentative tactics aimed at at least preserving the political viability of the candidate. These findings demonstrate not only the complexity of the persuasion mechanisms at play but also the interviewee's intention to manipulate audience perception to serve their political interests, suggesting an understanding of argumentation as a tool for electoral influence. The nine thematic blocks structuring the argumentative sections of the interview text demonstrate strong cohesion in the chaining of speech acts into argumentative, persuasive, or fallacious macro acts.

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