Disinformation as a political strategy
an analysis of presidential speeches during the covid-19 pandemic
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https://doi.org/10.23925/1982-6672.2021v14i40p48-67Keywords:
desinformação, covid-19, análise de discurso, BolsonaroAbstract
The paper analyzes President Jair Bolsonaro’s speeches during the covid-19 pandemic. The objective is to understand the argumentative strategies present in the most common misinformation used by the Brazilian leader. The corpus consists of 687 statements made between January and September 2020. For the methodology, we combine the quantitative content analysis with the critical discourse analysis proposed by Van Dijk. The result showed that most of Bolsonaro’s speeches about the pandemic contained inaccurate and unsustainable information. The most repeated phrases aimed to control the context to outsource
guilt and defend the return to normality.
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