Corpos políticos na entrega da faixa presidencial: uma análise discursiva

Abstract

This proposal brings as significant materiality an image discursivity produced in repercussion to the event of the delivery of the presidential sash to the 39th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, which took place on January 1, 2023. Accompanying the image is the statement “The Brazil takes ownership of itself.” Based on the materialist theory of discursive processes, by Michel Pêcheux, we propose to analyze the political functioning of the body and its protagonism in the power relations portrayed in the discursive scene on screen. We are interested in understanding the discursive relationship that can be established between the body, as a discursive materiality, and designation, as a discursive functioning - such as the theoretical notion proposed by Guimarães. In these conditions of production, for this gesture of analysis, the discourse in question constitutes a counter-discourse in relation to the dominant discourses representing the extreme right and the government that ended at the moment of this presidential inauguration. We seek, therefore, to problematize, reflect and contribute to the understanding of the discursive functionings that move meanings about Brazil, the Brazilian, Brazilian democracy, as well as the differences that constitute Brazilianness and permeate our social experience.