The Regina’s Pantomime: Symbolic Fragment Integrated Into The Interdiscursive Network of Memorial Recycling

Abstract

This paper proposes to analyze a specific discursive event present in the interview of Regina Duarte, former special secretary of culture of the Brazilian government, to the television station CNN Brasil, on May 7, 2020. More specifically, the hypothesis is to defended that the song “Pra frente, Brasil”, sung by Regina during the interview, functioned as a discursive event subtly integrated into an interdiscursive network that, in Brazil, continually reinforces symbolic recycling of historical memory referring to the period of the Military Dictatorship (1964-1985) by updating the discursive memory. In order to do so, based on key concepts within the theoretical and methodological framework of the French Discourse Analysis, a conceptual path is developed mainly based on the notions of historical memory, discursive memory, interdiscourse and pre-discourse.