A reprodução discursiva do poder e o contradiscurso : o "cidadão de bem" em discursos do Presidente da República e de antibolsonaristas

Abstract

The 2018 Brazilian presidential elections were marked by the intensification of political polarization. It was noted in the speech of the candidate who received the most votes, Jair Bolsonaro, from the far right, a recurrence of the expression “good citizen”. The categorization was not ignored by people against the president: while Jair Bolsonaro uses it to refer to those who deserve respect in the country, anti-Bolsonarists used the expression to obtain a critical and ironic effect, also suggesting the emergence of a negative stereotype of the good citizen. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to analyze how the social representation of the good citizen is (re)produced in the speech of the President of the Republic and of extragroups. In addition, we seek to detect discursive structures and strategies that point to the role played by the so-called good citizens in social marginalization and, finally, identify in the discourses of Jair Bolsonaro and anti-Bolsonarists social beliefs of the “good” ideological community. The works of Teun A. van Dijk (2012; 2016; 2018; 2020) in Critical Discourse Studies are fundamental for this research. Compõem o corpus deste estudo crítico e sociocognitivo publicações do Twitter, tanto do próprio presidente da República, quanto de perfis de pessoas críticas ao Governo Bolsonaro. They are part of the corpus of this critical and socio-cognitive study Twitter publications, of the President of the Republic and profiles of people critical of the Bolsonaro Government. Among the results, we highlight the recurrence of the victimization strategy, on the part of Jair Bolsonaro, and the construction of a military mental model, both in the discourse of the president speech and in the counter-discourse.