O discurso político e o tema corrupção: construções discursivo-ideológicas na relação entre a vida pública e a vida privada

Abstract

This dissertation has as its investigation object the political speech of the Senator Renan Calheiros (who, at the moment, occupied the Presidency function), more precisely, his speech at the Federal Senate after a corruption denunciation by Veja Magazine, in May/2007. This paper aimed to comprehend how the discursive speaker defends himself from that accusation in order to verify the relation that is built among the speaker, his interlocutors and the discursive object. Before such problem questions, the dissertation follows a theoretical and methodological way based on Bakhtin s concepts concerning the discursive ideological relation as the essential element to comprehend the senses of words and the verbal interaction as the essence of the man (the dialogical principal). The study observed the presence of a confrontation between public life and private life which functions as a way to rebuild the discursive object. In the speech of Renan Calheiros, it is not his self-defense which occupies a central role, but values related to privacy and the institution, the Senate.