Argumentative analysis of a televised political debate in the second round for governor of Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the argumentation in a political debate. The basis for analysis will be Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca's A Treatise on Argumentation (2005) and its review, organized, similarly, by types of arguments in Argumentação, by Fiorin (2015). Thus, we wish to identify the so-called 'almost logical arguments' and 'arguments that underlie the structure of the real' in the arguments of two candidates who were running for the second round for governor of Rio de Janeiro in 2018. The proposal is to verify how these arguments, so widespread in our daily lives, were integrated into the political discourse and used in the context in question and in what ways is it possible to counter-argument what an opponent says in an election, while verifying if this is a productive argumentative context for the selected arguments and if they were used more for defense and self-promotion or to attack the opponent.