Os donos do discurso: análise de uma polêmica sobre a Reforma da Previdência

Abstract

This work consists in a semiotic analisys of the controversy concerning the Previdence remodeling during the presidential term of Michel Temer (2013-2018). This analisys aims to approach the controversy as a discursive phenomenon and, consequently, as a social phenomenon and also to understand its relations with the patrimonialism. It has been selected some oral and written texts from politicians, jurists, and economists, who are favorable or contrary to that remodeling, whose meaning process will be analysed, acording to French Semiotics of Greimas. This analysis allows seeing how brasilian public debate is related to the govenment system and how it relates brasilian people to that system. For this, it’ll be analysed what the semiotic calls “Generative path of meaning”, and after this, it’ll be analysed the formation of of passionate elements and how those elements contribute to the achievement of the social objectives of those discourses.