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Analysis on the speech of André Ventura (AV) in the television debates on the gen)eralist Portuguese channels, RTP, SIC, TVI during the campaign for the presidential elections of January 2021. Study crossing semiotics and rhetoric. Semiotics will enable us to understand how AV discourse was inscribed in a political resentment. In turn, the rhetorical analysis will be useful to demonstrate the way in which his register moved away from a traditional paradigm of political expressiveness (in)scribed in the deliberative genre) to one related to the judicial genre, in the scope of which it was generated a denouncement and stigmatization discursivity [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the mid-80s the English term "spin doctor" began to being the best way to classify press secretaries that manipulating journalists and, consequently, public opinion (Safire, 1984, October 21; Maltese, 1992; Tankard & Sumpter, 1994; Kurtz, 1998, Manning, 1998; Campbell, 2002). Under this assumption, and with a main objective to try to understand whether there is, in fact, spin doctoring in Portugal, it was decided to conduct elite interviews of the elements who "inhabit" the center of national political activity and the nucleus of higher concentration and productivity political journalism in Portugal - the Portuguese Parliament. Thus, we conducted 30 interviews with the trinomial politics - press secretaries - journalists; namely 1) the press secretaries who carry out their activity for the different parliamentary groups; 2) to correspondent-journalists in Parliament and who deal daily with these professionals; and 3) the politicians who hire their services. It should be stressed among respondents are two former prime-ministers of Portugal, Pedro Santana Lopes and Jose Socrates, and various press advisers and press consultants who served several parties and several governments. Among the results, not only demonstrates the existence of this activity in Portugal, as well as identify its main protagonists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This chapter's objective is the analysis of a set of discursive and political representations as well as the analysis of the values contained on the slogans of the Portuguese presidential elections, from 1976, when the first presidential election occurred, after the 1974 revolution, till 2006. The results of the study will focus the analysis of the discursive, political and ideological differentiation contained in the campaign slogans. In methodological terms, the present study is based on the content analysis technique, supported in a qualitative and inferential view, focused on the considered informational contents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]