Do discurso à ação política: análise de acontecimentos extremistas que violam uma ética discursiva

In this article, we reflect on aspects of the relationships between discourse, action, and ethics in the Brazilian political arena. These relationships were examined from theoretical perspectives based on the integration of discursive, phenomenological, and cognitive studies. We highlight the approaches of Ricoeur (1988) and Paveau (2015), particularly the notions of the discourse of action, ethically qualified action, and discursive ethics/virtue. These notions provided a conceptual and analytical framework for the analysis of two extremist events from protests against the outcome of the 2022 presidential elections, illustrating our political context characterized by the rise of the far-right and attacks against the Democratic Rule of Law. Methodologically, we selected a corpus of texts (such as memes, cartoons, photographs, statements, communications and a petition), which address and problematize these two events, shaping forms of metadiscourses with moral axiological nature. These metadiscursive statements were qualitatively analyzed based on their description and interpretation in light of the aforementioned notions.