A (des)construção do ethos do presidente Michel Temer em seu primeiro pronunciamento

Abstract

It is known that each type of discourse has its own discursive constructions (MAINGUENEAU, 2004). Political discourse, despite using discursive strategies to construct an image of itself that pleases its voter, is also influenced by the discursive genre in which it occurs, as well as the support (s), by which it is transmitted, and by the discursive community (political environment), to which he belongs. Thus, ethos is not only a means of persuasion, it is revealed from clues left by the enunciator (MAINGUENEAU, 2005). From this, in our work, we wondered: How occurred the (de) construction of Michel Temer’s éthe in his first pronouncement as president of the Republic? What linguistic resources helped in this process of éthe (de) construction? Moved by this problematization, we aim, in this work, to analyze the process of (de)construction of Michel Temer’s éthe, reflecting on the linguistic resources that helped in this process, we also propose to characterize the pronouncement genre. With this, we believe that the present work is an interesting proposal for the analysis of the discourse, since, in addition to the notion of ethos in the political scope, it also brings reflections about pronouncement genre. Our corpus is constituted by the first pronouncement of Michel Temer, as president of the Republic, on August 31, 2016, published by the official site Planalto, analyzed by the inductive method, in a qualitative research of the bibliographic type (XAVIER, 2010 ). We focus our research on the assumptions of Maingueneau (1997, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2010, 2011, 2016) in dialogue with Amossy (2005), Aurélio (2012), Fiorindo (2012), Heine (2012) and Campos (2007), with regard to the discussions on discursive ethos; Charaudeau (2006) with regard to issues related to political discourse; Marcuschi (2008) and Maingueneau (2004), when dealing with the reflections on discursive genres. We found, through discursive fragments of the pronouncement analyzed, that there was a process of (de) construction of the Michel Temer’s ethos, that is, he had to discard a supposedly negative image to construct another that was accepted by the Brazilians