“Mistake” on supporting the 64 Coup d’état: subjects face off in this discursive event

Abstract

This paper analyses the discourse, as well as the social and historical conditions which led the subject, Organizações Globo, to declare the “admission of the mistake” of having “supported” the 1964 Brazilian Coup d’état. This research is affiliated to the French school of Discourse Analysis (DA), and takes the historical-dialectical materialism as the foundation of the study, under the Totality category. As a result, we understand that such a discursive event, produced by mainstream media, is inscribed, starting from a certain gesture of interpretation of historic memory (Coup d’état, Revolution, Democracy), in a region of what is sayable, in order to reassert its dominant political position within the capitalist logic of Brazilian society.