Impeachment ou golpe? referenciação, orientação argumentativa e contexto em um debate da TV Folha

Abstract

This paper presents a brief analysis of the linguistic referencing processes in a debate held by TV Folha, the video channel of the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. In the program, Guilherme Boulos (MTST) and Demétrio Magnoli (Instituto Millenium) discussed, from their political and ideological opposing points of view, whether the process that ended up in the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff was lawful or not. We consider in this paper the linguistic referencing as the intersubjective, discursive and socially situated process of construction of objects of speech (MONDADA & DUBOIS, 2003). From this positioning, we discuss the referential progress strategies (KOCH, 2002) which emerge through the interaction between the interlocutors, as well as the constitutive dimensions of context, emergence and embodiment (HANKS, 2008), to investigate how the interlocutors construct, reconstruct and dispute the objects of speech around the event Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, considering the sociocognitive aspects of this construction. Our objective is to investigate, in a qualitative analysis, the linguistic reference construction relating it to the sociocognitive role of context, aiming to understand the relation of both processes in the argumentative direction of the debate. With our research, we seek to contribute to the sociocognitive agenda and to the studies in referencing. Besides, we intend to offer linguistic dimensions the discussion about the apparent process of polarization that has been marking Brazilian political life in recent years.