QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF NOUNS, VERBS AND ADJECTIVES IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF THE NEW BRAZILIAN RIGHT WING IN TEXTS COLLECTED ON TWITTER

ABSTRACT

This study aims to develop a quantitative analysis of the most used nouns, verbs and adjectives in 4,523 tweets posted by President Jair Bolsonaro on his profile on the social network Twitter between March 31, 2010—when the profile was created—and March 7, 2019. We focused on assessing the most frequent lexical items in order to perform a linguisticdiscursive analysis of the lexical chain in these discursive formations, according to Pêcheux (2009). To do so, we organized the text as follows: in the first section, we defined the concept of new Brazilian right wing or present-day Brazilian far right; in the second one, through statistical research, we defined the main characteristics of the Brazilian society that may be associated with this political field; finally, in the third section, we presented our theoretical and methodological assumptions in data collection and carried out the analyses

quantitative analysis; new Brazilian right wing; texts; Twitter