The two sides of the discourse against the reform of brazilian social security

Abstract

Here, the discursive form (DF) against the government proposition for the reform of the Previdência (Brazilian Social Security) is analyzed in its interaction with its opposite, that is, with the DF favorable to the reform proposition, considering that the identity of discourse is built in its relation to the Other. In this study, the French Discourse Analysis is used together with the notion of DF plus an eventual resource to paraphrase and to the metaphoric effect as strategies to organize the terms and enunciation in keeping with the relations of meaning, which occur in the DFs. The corpus includes 81 enunciations selected from the reading of 30 letters from readers against the proposition for reform as published by O Globo on line and Oestadao.com.br on line-newspapers from 4/9 and 5/13/2003.