As diferentes construções discursivas do poder: Análise crítica dos discursos políticos de Mário Soares e de Cavaco Silva

This article intents to analyze the relations between political discourse and power, here assumed as charismatic and hegemonic, aiming to understand the strategical points of construtions of the power of the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic in Portugal. Our analysis will concern Weberian (charismatic) and Gramsci (hegemonic) power so those dimensions could be outlined, as well as the discursive construction of the political actors characterizing the President of Republic and the Prime Minister leadership. The methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) analyses how the different leaders in political discourse are consisted (Wodak, 2009). Our corpora are four discourses of nomination referring to the president Mario Soares and the Prime Minister, Cavaco Silva, in there coexistence period (1986-1996) aim to underline the characteristics of the different ways of leadership comparing strategies and its contextualization