A legitimação do poder político no discurso de posse presidencial de Fernando Collor de Mello no contexto da redemocratização política brasileira pós-regime militar

Abstract

This dissertation proposes an analysis of Fernando Collor's presidential inauguration speech from the perspective of French Discourse Analysis. We aim to understand how discursive elements contributed to the process of legitimation of political power in the analyzed speech. To this end, our research is guided by the following questions: how does Collor’s speech reflect the political, economic, and social context of Brazil in the early 1990s? How does the speech respond to the expectations of society during a period of redemocratization and economic crisis? Through our contributions, we seek to expand theoretical discussions on the categories of Discourse Analysis, addressing a corpus that has been little explored. The present dissertation is structured as follows: historical contextualization of the corpus; theoretical framework; and analysis. For the analysis of the political element of the speech, we draw on the contributions of Political Science theorists regarding concepts of liberty, human nature, legitimacy of power, and the function of politics. For the historical contextualization of the corpus, we analyze relevant historical events that contributed to shaping the political context of Brazil's redemocratization after the military regime. In the second chapter, we present our interpretation of the theoretical framework selected for the foundation of the analysis. Thus, we rely on the contributions of Political Science theorists regarding key concepts that guide the discipline, as well as the contributions of French Discourse Analysis theorists and Political Discourse Analysis theorists. We consider the following categories of French Discourse Analysis: discursive formation, interdiscourse, scenes of enunciation, and ethos. Regarding Political Discourse Analysis, we consider the categories of speech act, political action, and their instances and values. The main theoretical references used for Discourse Analysis were Maingueneau (2007, 2008, and 2020). For the approach to political discourse, we take into account Charaudeau (1996 and 2008). Among the results of our study, we observed how the speech addresses the tensions and engages with the aspirations of Brazil’s political redemocratization context in the early 1990s. For its legitimation, the analyzed speech relies on the construction of an ethos linked to identities associated with democracy, political moralization, and austere liberalism