SOCIAL RIGHT AND ITS DISCOURSES

BETWEEN DISCLOSURE OF SOCIAL BENEFITS TO THE POPULATION AND AN EXPLICIT GOVERNMENT SELF-ADVERTISING

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the communication of social rights recognized in periods of exception in Brazilian democracy. According to the materialist Discourse Analysis of Michel Pêcheux and Eni Orlandi, it seeks to identify the functioning of language in the dissemination of social security and labor rights by the Brazilian State in a capitalist context and restriction of civil and political rights.We intend to verify the appropriation of social rights by a public figure, in the case of the second government of Getúlio Vargas, or by a regime, in the case of the military dictatorship. During the Vargas dictatorship, the research explores the “Thursday speeches” of the Minister of Labor Alexandre Marcondes Filho, on the radio program “Hora do Brasil”, broadcast by Rádio Nacional in the period before the publication of Decree-Law nº 5.452 , of May 1, 1943, which consolidates the legislation to protect the working class. In the Military Dictatorship, the corpus comprises the articles paid by the government in the newspaper “O Jornal (RJ)”, in the period immediately after Decree nº 72, of November 21, 1966, which unifies the Retirement Institutes and Pensions and creates the National Social Security Institute. This article presents the initial analysis of the existing controversy between the necessary disclosure of social benefits to the population and an explicit government self-advertising in the speeches authorized by the Brazilian State in periods of dictatorships and, based on the research findings, it is intended to shed light on the communication of social rights. Therefore, two possible developments are expected: the subjection inherent in the process of citizenship in the capitalist context and the role of the State in the implementation of social rights, in the dictatorial regimes of Brazil, to the detriment of civil and political rights.