Pressupostos e subentendidos no gênero debate político: Análise do debate entre Dilma Rousseff e Aécio Neves em 2014

Abstract

This paper intends to analyze the implicits that are present in the televising political debate between Aécio Neves and Dilma Rousseff, in October of 2014, in which the candidates competed in the second round of the Brazilian presidential elections. For this purpose, the theory of presupposition and implication is used, in light of authors such as Paradis (2009), Grundy (2000), Griffiths (2006) and Lebret (2016), as well as authors dealing with the television political debate genre, such as Travaglia et al (2013), Soares (2002) and Braga (2006). This qualitative paper begins from the hypothesis that implicits are used in the political debates with the intention to attack or denigrate the image of the opposite candidate and/or to promote/defend self-image. Therefore, in order to verify if this is actually the case, the presuppositions and implications in the questions, answers, replies and rejoinders made by the two candidates were analyzed in the debates’ first block, which was broadcasted by Rede Globo on October 24, 2014. The conclusion shows that both presuppositions and implications are found in candidates’ discourse and confirm the initial hypothesis of our paper.