“The Other as the Enemy”: Political Discourse and Intolerance in Contemporary Brazil

Abreu de Morais Argus Romero

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“The Other as the Enemy”: Political Discourse and Intolerance in Contemporary Brazil

Abreu de Morais Argus Romero

Published in Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 8, Issue 4)

Received: 20 June 2022 Accepted: 26 September 2022 Published: 31 October 2022

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In this study, we aim to evaluate the formation of the political discourse of the current Brazilian extreme right through four utterances produced by Federal Deputy Jair Bolsonaro (Social Liberal Party), namely: three posts on his profile page on the social network Facebook in 2015 and 2016, and his vote in the Chamber of Deputies in favor of the impeachment procedure against President Dilma Rousseff (Workers’ Party), on April 16, 2016. In the first section, we discuss the historical organization of the extreme right’s political discourse as of the June 2013 protests, evaluating the confluence between political, neoliberal, conservative Christian and military nationalist discourses. In the second section, we investigate the rhetorical strategies of the political discourse of parliamentarians through the interface between eristic refutations and intolerant discourses. In the third, we bring together the approaches of Lakoff & Johnson, Paveau and Cameron & Deignam to metaphor and the reinterpretation of Hall’s ideology concept to suggest the theoretical-methodological category of distributed emergent metaphors. Finally, in the fourth section, we analyze the utterances produced by Deputy Bolsonaro. As a conclusion, we suggest that (i) the political discourse of the current Brazilian extreme right, which has Bolsonaro as its main representative, is based on the convergence between different conservative cultures in Brazil; (ii) the denial of the other in the discourse conveyed by the congressman constitutes the tension between the argumentative strategies of eristic refutations and the radical denial of the other produced by intolerance; and (iii) intolerant discourses are organized by the structural metaphor “the other is the enemy”.

Published in	Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 8, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.cls.20220804.12
Page(s)	61-70
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Political Discourse, Brazilian Far-Right, Argumentation, Discordant Interaction, Intolerant Discourse, Distributed Emergent Metaphors

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