Discourses about Popular Public Speakin in the Brazilian Press

Abstract

Based on the theoretical postulates and methodological procedures of Discourse Analysis, the article analyzes the first editions of the anarchist journal A Plebe, published in Brazil, in the year 1917. The purpose of the analysis is to describe and interpret a series of statements extracted from texts published in these issues of A Plebe, with the aim of identifying discourses about the practices of popular public speaking from progressive ideological positions. More precisely, the discursive approach of these texts allows us to better understand what the anarchist enunciators say about popular oratory, under historical conditions of effervescence of the labor movement. In addition, this study allows a better understanding of aspects and phenomena of the linguistic formulation of statements in which popular public speaking are thematized.