"BRAZIL ABOVE ALL, GOD ABOVE ALL": POLITICAL DISCURSIVE FORMULAS AND HATE SPEECH IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZIL

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.5582312205109

• Palavras-chave: political discourse, far right, discursive formula, intolerance.

• Keywords: political discourse, far right, discursive formula, intolerance.

• Abstract:

  In the present text, we will quickly resume the cognitive, interdiscursive and transdiscursive aspects, as developed in Morais (2018; 2019), to reflect on the slogan of the presidential campaign and the elected Federal Government of Jair Bolsonaro, namely: Brazil above all, God above all. To this end, we structure the present text as follows: in the first section, we will briefly discuss the relationship between nation and religion based on Anderson (2008); in the second, we define the concept of hate speech from the Agency for Fundamental Rights of the European Union (FRA, 2019), the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI, 2019) and Lakoff (2017); in the third, we make use of the contributions of Krieg-Planque (2010) regarding the concept of discursive formula to analyze the slogans in question. Anossover, this crystallized expression condenses a political project focused on a fundamentalist reading – in the dogmatic sense – of the concepts of nation and God in the country, reorganizing militarist and liberal thoughts.