Implicaturas conversacionais em um debate político

Abstract

This paper aims to undertake an analysis of a political debate from the perspective of the theory of Grice (1982) involving the Cooperative Principle and Conversational Maxims. The Corpus collected comes from the second round of election for the government of the state of Paraiba in 2010. Given that political debate is pervaded by highly strategic discourse whose main purpose is to persuade voters, we believe that this use of discursive language make the intentions of speaker become even more evident, demonstrating how language is essentially argument. Therefore, we sought to identify the breaks in the maximum which are intentionally used by candidates during the debate and, the fore, to note what the semantic-discursive effects of its use, which give birth to the so called Conversational Implicature. From our analysis, we concluded that intentional breaches of maxims are used by candidates to achieve certain effects of meaning within a communicative context and thus to achieve certain effects in the context of an election.