Enunciator Images in Presidential Speeches Delivered on May 1st

Abstract

The article reports one of the stages developed during the doctoral research “Presidential speeches delivered on May 1st: the trajectory of a discursive practice” and aims at understanding how the construction of enunciator images is operated discursively, supported by enunciationbased Discourse Analysis studies. The corpus is formed by the first speech of each Brazilian president between 1938 and 1994, that is, 13 speeches analysed as a whole. The conclusions identified several images that were compared and grouped around several roles, as a way to facilitate the construction of detailed considerations and comments on them.