Causes of Enunciation and Epic-Vindictive Scenography in Javier Milei’s Political Discourse. The Projection of a Messianic and Anti Political Ethos in the Parque Lezama Rally (2024)

Abstract

This paper examines the speech scenes (Maingueneau, 1999; Charaudeau y Maingueneau, 2005) in President Javier Milei’s discourse in Parque Lezama (28/9/2024). The analysis focuses on the identification of the dialogic-causal indications that legitimize the scenography that the speech presupposes and establishes. To this end, from the perspective of the dialogic approach to argumentation and polyphony (García Negroni et al., 2023), we describe the discourse frames to be recovered as the dialogical cause of such scenography. It is argued that these discourse frames explain the subjective stances materialized in the enunciation -of exalted remembrance, of strong disqualification of the “casta”, of reaffirmation of the course of the administration and of convocation- and the emergence of an anti-political and messianic ethos, typical of extreme right-wing populist enunciation (Casullo, 2019). At the same time, we characterize the way in which this ethos coexists with a vulgar and violent way of speaking that unambiguously disqualifies the adversary and presents himself as invested by a higher power that entitles him as the leader of anti-politics in the fight against the “casta”.