Ecos do ethos: um golpe na imagem pública de Dilma Rousseff em Veja on line

Abstract

With the theoretical basis of the theory semiolinguistics of discourse analysis, we analyze the adjective as a discursive strategy for creating images to the president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, by magazine Veja (online). Our analysis is developed on two situational landmarks: the period before the presidential election of 2014 and the period subsequent to this political event. The study of adjectives in the corpus of this research shows how lexical choices can be used ideologically, when extracted from the sense of language and subject to the direction of discourse by the media in the creating stereotypical images. When building an image of the subject object of its discourse, Veja creates for itself also a image of enunciador, which we seek to reveal during this investigation.