A referenciação e as redes referenciais na representações dos atores sociais na entrevista política

Abstract

We conducted this research in order to better understand the phenomenon of referential networks, with the aim of investigating the functioning of deicticanaphoric strategies of network referencing (Cavalcante, Custódio Filho and Brito (2014), Cavalcante et al. (2022), Matos (2018), in the construction of the referents Bolsonaro and Maria do Rosário, in terms of their social representations that occurred in the discursive practice of the political interview. Thus, our analysis focuses on the deictic-anaphoric construction of the referent Bolsonaro, from his point of view as an interviewee and how he represents himself and his social group in relation to Maria do Rosário, in the context of the interview given to Veja magazine in 2014, published on its YouTube channel “TV EJA”, at the time mediated by journalist Joice Hasselmann. Concomitantly, we anchored ourselves in the dialogue with Critical Discourse Analysis, with the application of Van Leeuwen's (2008) modes of social representations in the political interview genre because it is of an analysis of a certain statement whose theme is: “I crossed the line, but I don’t regret it”! This research is characterized as qualitative and documentary in nature; in terms of objectives, it is classified as descriptive. In the interviewee’s discursive staging, on the one hand, there are groups that claim to follow the political, economic and ethical principles of the “extreme right”, constituting referents with which Bolsonaro associates himself, and on the other, the group of those who do not share the same ideological principles called “left”, with which the interviewee dissociates himself. The results regarding the representation of social actors in the discourse tend to reveal that the socio-semantic categories, not only associative, but also dissociative, proposed by Van Leewen (2008), can be aided by network referencing, revealed by deictic-anaphoric processes, in relation to the groups that each of them represents, by the socially shared image of Us vs. Them. In this, we emphasize the relevant role of referencing in these recontextualization processes, in particular, that of deictics in the construction of ideas of proximity and distance between actors in relation to social groups.