ABSTRACT
In this article, a discursive change in the way one can engage in political street demonstrations is shown through a debate about the relationship between how language functions and the technological apparatus that continuously organize social interactions. This phenomenon is examined in the signatures of enunciations that constitute those demonstrations. To accomplish this, the enunciations of two Brazilian political movements are analyzed: the demonstrations known as ‘direct (elections) now’, in 1983 and 1984, and the larger agenda 2013 demonstrations. From a dialogic point of view, one identifies an enunciative-discursive distinction in the ethical signature of the demonstrations, evincing a postmodern tension.
KEYWORDS:
Postmodernity; Dialogism; Concrete enunciation; Street demonstration; Political signature; (Meta)carnivalization