“Passando a boiada”

dialogical and interdiscursive aspects in texts related to the speech of The Minister of the Environment Ricardo Salles

Abstract

This article aims to discuss some dialogical and interdiscursive aspects perceived in texts published in response to the speech given by The Minister of the Environment Ricardo Salles, on April 22, 2020. Therefore, we opted for the qualitative approach, in the light of the Discourse Analysis paradigm. Considering the large number of publications of various genres, resulting from the great controversy generated by the Minister’s discourse, we chose three texts of the genres Note of Positioning, Advertisement and Charge, with the objective of exemplifying this diversity. Our theoretical basis relies on the concepts of Subjectivity, Dialogism, Polyphony, Interdiscourse and Heterogeneity (AUTHIER-REVUZ, 2004, 2011; BAKHTIN, 1990, 2003; BRANDÃO, 2015; ORLANDI, 2003). Since two of the texts selected for this corpus consist of multimodal texts, we also take into considerations some issues concerning Multimodality and Rhetoric (ALMEIDA, 2016, 2019; Tseronis & Forceville, 2017). As a result of this work, it was possible to observe some aspects of the dialogical process among the selected texts and the source discourse, as well as the role of interdiscourse and discursive memory in the interactional process. Moreover, in view of the multimodal character of the genres Charge and Advertisement, as well as the metaphorical nature, in this context, of the expression “passar a boiada”, we resort to the debate of some rhetorical and argumentative mechanisms pertaining to heterogeneity, the figurative idiomatic text in the light of conceptual metaphor.