A interpessoalidade nos discursos de posse presidencial do Brasil (1985 - 2011)

Abstract

Among the several specific contexts of language use, this research is inserted in the Brazilian political context. This work aims to explore functionally the semantic-discursive and lexico-grammatical resources which instantiate the interpesonality in speeches pronounced by Brazilian Republic‘s presidents in the moment of their acceptance. Therefore, the selected corpus comprises eight speeches of six different presidents, whose presidential terms are since 1985, when it was established the end of the military dictatorship, until 2011, when the last presidential term started, before the elaboration of this research project. This work is situated in the area of discourse semantics (MARTIN; WHITE, 2005) and it is supported on the theoretical pillars of the Systemic Functional Grammar (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014) and the resources of the Corpus Linguistics (SARDINHA, 2004). Other studies also support this research, specially those which concern the description of political speech (CHARAUDEAU, 2013). The analytical procedures comprehend the corpus organization; the gathering of quantitative data; the delimitation of contextual configuration; the analysis of the semantic-discursive and lexico-grammatical interpersonal resources and, lastly, the semantic-interpretative analysis. The research demonstrated that, according to the political period and the ideals which permeate it, the presidents‘ author identity varies. They assume, in general, a ―boss‖ posture, delineating the audience as subordinate to their wishes, because there are, in the speeches, predominance of statements. The mandating representatives‘ semantic-discursive choices show, still, that the target audience of the speeches is, mostly, members and personalities of the political context.