Biopolitics in coronavirus times
A discursive analysis on campaigns of the ministry of health in Brazil
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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-7726.2021.1.39030Keywords:
Coronavirus, biopolitca, ministry of healthAbstract
Since the end of 2019, and even in 2020, the world has been face with a major health crisis. We're talking about the pandemic caused by Covid-19. A disease that has mobilized the scientific community in search of the long-aforesome cure. For us linguists, it is worth noting how the discourses conveyed by government agencies are meaning with regard to the way in which dialogue is established with the population. This process of discursivization undertaken by the public power is called biopolitics – a concept articulated by the theoretician Michel Foucault, which comprises a set of norms used to control the subjects' lives. In the light of Discourse Analysis, based on Foucault (1997; 2000; 2009), Charaudeau (2016), and Courtine (2006), the article analyzes how biopolitics appears on two posters published on the website of the Ministry of Health in Brazil. Our investigations prove that there is thus a search for the establishment of a positive effect of the government in gaining the trust of the population in coping with this health crisis
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