A análise retórica no processo de inserção da Venezuela no Mercosul

Abstract

Several public hearings have been conducted at the ―Comissão de Relações Exteriores do Senado Federal‖ (Brazilian‘s Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense) in order to instruct the legislative decree project which approves the Protocol of Venezuela‘s adhesion to Mercosul (PDS 430/2008). A study on the argumentative techniques handled has been developed based on what senators, ambassadors, professors, governors, parliamentarians and other authorities have discussed. The tools managed to support two opposing streams (allowing or prohibiting Venezuela‘s adhesion) are analyzed. This study has ground, mainly, on Aristoteles, Toulmin and Perelman‘s theory on rhetoric‘s field. Its goal is to show the role and magnitude of argumentation in a political debate, in which public reasons are demanded to explain the decision making process. To accomplish that, some areas of argumentation have been analyzed (audience, persuasion, conviction, genders), as well as some starting points (deals), structures, argumentative techniques employed, among others.