O cadafalso da realidade: uma análise discursiva da desinformação durante a pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil

Abstract

This main objective of the present dissertation is to comprehend the linguistic and discursive phenomena of the disinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil using the Bakhtin’s Circle methodology, trying to characterize the concepts of disinformation and post-truth from the analysis of two samples that showed a broad range and engagement in the Brazilian social and politic field. In the first moment becomes necessary to make the structure that denotes the way the concepts that orbit Bakhtin’s Circle and, also the disinformation and the post-truth will be instrumentalized to lead an assertive analysis of the excerpts of disinformation shared during the pandemic. Once elucidated the way that the theoretical and methodologic bases will be used, becomes necessary to deepen the theoretical apparatus connected to Bakhtin’s Circle, denoting the main concepts and linguistic phenomena approached by the author’s as a way to demonstrate the bias assumed in the analysis, highlighting the role of the ideology, the statements, speeches and the social voices inside the analytic process of the investigation. After, the research seeks to create a dense contextualization of the concept of disinformation and post-truth as a way to denote the manner in which these tools started to integrate into the rhetorical arsenal of political and ideological groups nowadays, and also scale their impact on the current reality. Once established the conceptual and methodological basis that found the analytical assumptions of the investigation, is necessary to base the research on about the consistency of the hypothesis that drives her, seeking through the description, analysis, and interpretation of the samples, verify the presence of the social voice of the extreme right enunciated by Jair Bolsonaro in its interior, as well as find if the disinformation, in this cases works as a rhetorical device that extends the verbal dimensions of the pronouncements and speeches of the chief executive as a way to amplify his ideological positioning and stimulate specific responsive behaviors from his radicalized group. The assertive that serves as a foundation to the research is that the sharing of this information worked as a discursive strategy of dissemination of the dominant ideology, consciously spreading mistaken information with the intention to shape the narrative and provide material to the creation of a nonexistent reality during the pandemic, in a way to frame in their own interests.