REPRESENTING, EVALUATING AND IMAGINING IN TIMES OF ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNING

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https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v21i1.28412

Keywords:

Political discourse , Systemic Functional Linguistics , Presidential debate , Representations , Appraisal , Imaginaries

Abstract

This work aims at investigating how presidential candidates in Brazil construct representations, evaluative stances and imaginaries about themselves, Brazil and Brazilians in a passage from the last televised presidential debate in 2018. The theoretical and methodological frameworks are based on Systemic Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY; MATTHIESSEN, 2014), specifically the Transitivity and Appraisal systems, besides Wodak’s (2009) and Bochett’s (2017) notion of political discourse. The predominance of an imaginary of change, in which most candidates see themselves as a persevering and capable agent who will conduct this transformation, was evidenced. Only one of the candidates considers Brazilian citizens as important factors in this process of change.

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Author Biographies

Jéssica Freitas, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Doutoranda em Estudos Linguísticos pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM).

Sara Cabral, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

Professora do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM).

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Published

2020-08-01

How to Cite

Freitas, J., & Cabral, S. (2020). REPRESENTING, EVALUATING AND IMAGINING IN TIMES OF ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNING. Papers of Language and Society, 21(1), 82–99. https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v21i1.28412

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2020): Dossiê Linguagens, Identidades e Sociedade e Fluxo Contínuo

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