“Eu já fui julgado três vezes pelo povo brasileiro”: Lula e as representações discursivas de si no interrogatório do triplex

Abstract

The present article aims to analyze the discursive representations of itself built by the ex-president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in the interrogation of the triplex case. Former President Lula was accused by the Federal Public Ministry of owning a triplex apartment, acquired through an alleged corruption scheme. Throughout the process, the ex-president had the opportunity to present his defense to federal judge Sérgio Moro, arguing in favor of his innocence and clarifying the facts that supported the complaint. We adopted Textual Linguistics as a theoretical perspective, focusing on Textual Discourse Analysis, with emphasis on the semantic category of discursive representation. For this, we rely on Adam (2011), Rodrigues, Passeggi and Silva Neto (2010), Rodrigues et al (2012), Queiroz (2013), among others. As a methodology, we use the mixed method and a qualitative approach of an interpretive nature, which made it possible to interpret the data present in the corpus, seeking to understand the meanings constructed in the context. In our results, it was possible to verify that, in the interrogation, the ex-president builds an Rd of himself while judged by the justice through the criminal process and judged by the people through the political electoral process.