The “Shadow Cabinet” and the denialist discourse in Brazil

This paper explores some characteristics of the denialist discourse, such as its apparent process of legitimacy and its prototypical enunciator. The analysis is based on public declarations made by members of the so called “shadow cabinet” or “parallel cabinet” – a supportive group to the president...

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Autor: Oliveira, Hélio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN)
Repositorio:Cadernos de Linguística
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs3.cadernos.abralin.org:article/427
Acceso en línea:https://cadernos.abralin.org/index.php/cadernos/article/view/427
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Discurso
Negacionismo
Pandemia
Atopia discursiva
Discourse
Denialism
Pandemic
Discursive atopy
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Sumario:This paper explores some characteristics of the denialist discourse, such as its apparent process of legitimacy and its prototypical enunciator. The analysis is based on public declarations made by members of the so called “shadow cabinet” or “parallel cabinet” – a supportive group to the president of the republic and to other federal government agentes, during the covid-19 pandemic. The main objective is to understand the nature of the denialist discourse, especially its antiscientific perspective, taking as theoretical the Discourse Analysis, specially the work of Maingueneau (2010) about topic and atopic discourses: the first one is completelly accept by society but the second is relegated to underground. The results identify a discourse marked by a paradoxical character (its enunciators appear as specialists and scientists, but avoid scientific theses and methodologies), besides of argumentative strategies that obscure the meaning, what characterizes this discourse as atopic. In terms of legitimacy, althought the denialism has a great space and some power in Brazil, with serious consequences related to the pandemic, there are signs that denialist discourse remain atopic.