O Dia Internacional da mulher na perspectiva discursiva do Presidente Brasileiro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Abstract

This article presents the analysis of the President of Brazilian Republic Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speeches, on International Women's Day celebrations, between 2003 and 2009. The corpus comprises ten official declarations, looking at the structure of reasoning, of which the main theoretical instrument relies in Chaira Perelman's Theory of Argumentation (1996). The aim was observing how woman is pictured in presidential speeches and if there were any changes in this profile in the elapsing of the two Lula mandates.