Abstract
Within the framework of the French line of discourse studies, we pro-pose an analysis of the sentence ‘Volta, Lula’ in order to describe and interpret its discursive course. This sentence circulated as a reaction of the opposition of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) and its allies when Dilma Rousseff was nominated for the re-election as President in 2014. Our hypothesis is that such an utterance is an event-phrase (Baronas, 2013) and to corroborate it we make use of the theoretical-methodological frameworks proposed by Moirand (2008) about mots-evenements and Maingueneau (2012) about sentences without text. For our purposes, we use a corpus of 123 texts from the Brazilian newspapers ‘Folha de S. Paulo’ and ‘O Estado de S. Paulo’, in the period that comprised the pre-electoral campaign of the elections for president in Brazil in 2014.
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