The argumentative organization in the advice of pastor Silas Malafaia on the candidate to the presidency Fernando Haddad

Abstract

This paper aims to study the argumentative organization of an advisory by Pastor Silas Malafaia published on social networks and to address the articulation between the domains of religious and political discursive practice in this publication. It is a video published by Pastor Silas Malafaia, in which he advises Internet users not to vote for Fernando Haddad, then candidate for the presidency of the Republic of the Workers’ Party (PT). For this, we adopted Charaudeau’s Semiolinguistic Analysis as a theoretical axis. This study allowed us to identify how Malafaia’s discourse reconciles components of the religious and political domains, using linguistic and discursive categories, ordered according to the purpose of incitement, and submitted to the argumentative organization of the discourse.