Discurso em análise

uma reflexão sobre a luta de classes materializada no discurso acerca da pandemia da covid-19

Abstract

With affiliation to the Discourse Analysis of tradition in Michel Pêcheux, we seek in this text to break with the effects’ evidence of senses constructed about Covid-19, exposing the reader's gaze to the opacity of the senses. Here, in our view, is the role of language in reflecting on public issues in times of the pandemic: understanding the senses that are said about them, but also, and, above all, those that are not said and mean, (re) producing senses. For this, we bring to analysis, a cutting of a discourse representative of a privileged class in the capitalist production system in which we live, whose meaning effects textualize, in our opinion, their interests. Our goal is to understand how subjects enrolled in an economically favored subject position signify the consequences of Covid-19, social isolation and the other. We start from the understanding that the materiality of the language does not guarantee us access to its order, so it is essential that we intervene in history and ideology, to account for the historicity of the senses. Thus, we seek to reflect on three guiding questions of this proposal, and we conclude with the understanding that it is a discourse that shows the class struggle.