POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND DISCURSIVE REPRESENTATIONS:
“They condemned an innocent and carried out a parliamentary coup”: Dilma Rousseff’s discourse after the Senate’s approval of her impeachment on 08/29/2016.
Keywords: Text Linguistics. Textual Discourse Analysis. Discursive Representations.
ABSTRACT
This study aims to analyze how the discursive representations of President Dilma Rousseff are constructed through the semantic categories of referentiation, predication, and modification in Dilma Rousseff’s speech following the Senate’s approval of her impeachment on 08/29/2016. This research falls within the scope of linguistic studies on text, anchored in Text Linguistics, with a focus on Textual Discourse Analysis (TDA) as theorized by Adam (2011). Furthermore, this approach can be seen as “a theory of the co(n)textual production of meaning that must be based on the analysis of concrete texts” (Adam, 2011). Thus, TDA offers a theoretical/analytical perspective on discursive representations, aimed at investigating the semantic dimension of texts. This research relies on recent studies on discursive representations developed within Brazilian research on TDA, particularly at UFRN, such as the works of (Rodrigues; Passeggi; Silva Neto, 2010, 2012; Koch, 2018; and Queiroz, 2013). The adopted methodological approach prioritizes qualitative and bibliographical aspects, with an emphasis on comprehensive surveys of linguistic structures, as well as detailed descriptions of their meanings and discursive-textual functions.