The notions of enunciative event and discursive event: a view upon the political discourse

Abstract

The text is placed in the field of political discourse and, theoretically grounded on the Discourse Analysis. It is concerned whether the understanding Dilma Rouseff inauguration as president of Brazil (2011) constitutes itself as either a discursive event or an enunciative one. The question that drives us is whether the fact of being the first woman to ever occupy the presidency, lined also with singular features, would allow us to claim that we face a discursive event based on the guidelines Pêcheux (1990) provided in Discourse: structure or event, or whether it would constitute itself as an enunciative event in the molds of what has been exploited by Indursky since 2002.