Diametic variation and institutional political communication The “politician-journalist” interaction in Bolsonaro’s Brazil between old and new forms of dialogue

Abstract

This contribution proposes an analysis of the political language of Jair Bolsonaro, the current Brazialian president. Starting from the diamesic dichotomy between written written and spoken-spoken (Nencioni, 1976) and considering the scheduled interviews (interactions via videocall) and the questions of journalists in the public interventions of the Brazilian president (face-to-face interactions), it is possible to observe how, in cases like those here mentioned, the medium does not influence communication, only allowing a distinction between planned and unplanned communication. Furthermore, in line with the scientific research on conversation analysis, an analysis of the dialogue between Brazilian politicians and journalists is proposed as a form of unequal communication: in all cases, the asymmetry of social positions between the speaker and his interviewers is evident