The discursive dialogicity of the hashtag #DeixemONordesteVotar

Abstract

This research consists of a dialogical discourse analysis, based on the philosophy of language by Bakhtin and the Circle. The aim of this article is to analyze how five utterances from the tweet discourse genre, published on the social network Twitter (X), constitute themselves as counter-discourses of resistance. The focus of the investigation lies on the use of the hashtag #DeixemONordesteVotar, seeking to understand how this statement, along with those related to it, ideologically responds to attempts to curtail the democratic exercise in the Northeast region of Brazil. The analysis is based on the chronotope of October 30, 2022, the date of the second round of the Brazilian presidential elections, observing how the meanings constructed in these statements dialogue with contemporary socio-historical and ideological conditions. The results highlight the presence of an image of the contemporary man who, through digital social networks, actively responds to the events of life, reaffirming the legitimacy of the Northeast region’s political participation in the electoral process.