Abstract

SANTOS, Edmilson Gomes dos. Discurso, termómetro da competição política: Os primeiros meses de oposição do 18.º Presidente do PSD ao XXI Governo Português. RILP [online]. 2023, vol.44, pp.83-97.  Epub Dec 14, 2023. ISSN 2182-4452.  https://doi.org/10.31492/2184-2043.rilp2023.44/pp.83-97.

This article proposes to elaborate on the relationship between political discourse and political competition, and lecture on the political-party competition in Portugal in the first months of Rui Rio ahead of the main opposition party, PSD. We intend to achieve the second objective already mentioned through the analysis of the discursive interaction between the head of the Portuguese XXI Constitutional Government and the leader of the main opposition party, seen through published newspapers articles. In the first part, a theoretical elaboration is presented on the various concepts involved in the relationship studied; in the following section are exposed the procedures and results of the empirical study carried out. It is argued that, due to the communicational nature of politics, political discourse can be an indicator of the level of political-party competition. It was concluded that, in the period analysed, there was a high level of convergence in the discourse, among the leaders of the parties studied, which points to the existence of a weak level of political competition in Portugal.

Keywords : Political communication; newspapers; political competition; PS; PSD; Portugal.

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