The political discourse of the Brazilian far-right nowadays

Abstract

In this study, we aim to investigate the interdiscursive, argumentative and metaphorical organization of the brazilian far-right discourse nowadays. Our corpus is composed by the congressman Jair Bolsonaro's vote in the Chamber of Deputies, on April 17, 2016, and three statements published in his profile on the Facebook. In the first section, we will define what we mean by political discourse of the brazilian far-right; in the second one, we will characterize such discourse as discordant interaction and intolerant discourse; in the third one, we will explore the category of distributed emergent metaphors; in the fourth one, we will evaluate our corpus.