Digital political discourse: movements, ruptures and displacements

• Grant number: 21/07055-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: April 01, 2022
• End date: March 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Linguistics - Linguistic Theory and Analysis
• Principal Investigator: Cristiane Pereira Costa Dias
• Grantee: Renata de Oliveira Carreon
• Host Institution: Núcleo de Desenvolvimento da Criatividade (NUDECRI). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This postdoctoral project aims to understand the movements, ruptures and displacements produced by the digital political discourse, a term coined by us with the objective of no longer taking the political and the digital as autonomous objects, but to understand them to from their (inter)relationships. This regarding, what is proposed is to broaden the conceptual framework of discourse analysis to encompass a concept that emerges from the new discursive practices of democratic participation that, perishing in its rituals, materializes in the digital, imposing mutations on the political-citizen relationship, which does make them feel "intimate" with the political subject. Thus, we will analyze the presidential live streams performed by Jair Messias Bolsonaro to understand, more specifically, how this peculiar use of live stream videos has metamorphosed the political discourse so that today, as analysts, it's needed to think about it from the digital point of view. Initially, the live streams that make up the research archive are divided into (I) governability and (II) pandemic management; however, considering the movements that the digital political discourse has been undergoing, it is believed that a third axis of analysis can be observed: (III) 2022 elections, since the discursiveness of a political subject in a campaign is usually different from the ongoing one. To do so, the framework of discourse analysis will be mobilized as a theoretical-methodological foundation, especially those produced in Brazil by Cristiane Dias (2016, 2018, 2019) and Eni Orlandi (2005, 2008, 2014, 2017, 2020), but beyond and furthermore, to think about the digital, this research will also consider the studies of Marie-Anne Paveau, who is a French analyst (2013, 2017). (AU)