O ethos discursivo do governo Antonio Anastasia na interlocução com a sociedade: um estudo da propaganda institucional governamental

Abstract

The public relations advertising is used by the governments to establish a dialogue with the society. This type of government communication is supported by the Brazilian Federal Constitution and is used by the Presidency of the Republic, state and municipal governments. But unlike the companies that advertise their products aimed at consumer markets, candidates for elected office, which aim to be elected, and guidance campaigns for behavioral changes, the public relations advertising acts only as a way of publicizing the government actions. For this form of communication, the Executive Branch seeks to present its government actions using persuasion strategies to strengthen its institutional image to the citizen. In this dialogue with the society, the governments build and project images of themselves presenting themselves to the caller with the purpose of getting their connivance in relation to the statement. This built self-representation, called ethos, is used to infuse credibility and identification to the government management. This research seeks to identify the ethos which has been built and designed for the management of Governor Antonio Anastasia, of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB), in the state of Minas Gerais. The theoretical research framework was built on Semiolinguistics Theory of Discourse Analysis proposed by Patrick Charaudeau. The analysis corpus consists of four television public relations advertising from different campaigns aired in the years 2012 and 2013, focused on the public services of Health, Education, Public Safety and Economic Development. To achieve the goal of identifying the discursive ethos by this type of government communication, we have analyzed situational conditions of identification, purpose, knowledge domain and constituent device and the discursive conditions of legitimacy, credibility and capture of the communication agreement established between the government and the society. The results showed that the government of PSDB in Minas Gerais uses the public relations advertising to show mainly as a competent management to society.