Economy and/or health: a pragmatic analysis of the Bolsonaro government's position in the digital environment during the pandemic

Interactions in digital environments, in line with non-virtual social practices, can strengthen discourses that reflect solidarity, social justice and humandignity, but also the opposite, such as reinforcing social inequality, developing hatred and misinformation. This article proposes ananalysis, from a pragmatic perspective, of a publication from Brazilian President, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, at the social network Facebook, on July 8th, 2020, one day after the announcement of his positive test for covid-19, and of the comments performed on the post. For this purpose, we base the study on the elaboration of frameworks and footing (GOFFMAN (2002), as well as on the representations socially constructed by the conversational maxims break, proposed by Grice (1982). In the Digital Discourse Analysis (PAVEAU, 2014, 2017) to analyze the language inside of its online environment/native context, including the algorithm information. Therefore, we found that Jair Bolsonaro's frameworks reveal a discursive production that prioritizes non-social aspects and legitimizes a contempt for health care during the pandemic period and this circulation and discursive occupation in the digital environment is corroborated by the interlocutors in the post under analysis.