POLITICS AND EDUCATION

The aim of this work is to demonstrate, through discursive conceptions and theories, how the discourse of Dilma Rousseff, the candidate for re-election to the presidency by the Workers' Party in 2014, led her to elaborate, construct and consequently project a representation along the lines of the mythified warrior, William Wallace. The work also seeks to corroborate how political speeches, when well elaborated and thought out by individuals guided by historical and linguistic knowledge and, consequently launched, projected in a society guided by the social imaginary and common sense, have the great power to legitimize, fill with authority and potentiate the enunciations uttered by the individual who holds these speeches. Therefore, the investigation with the help of French Discourse Analysis, above all by verifying the conditions of discourse production, the mechanisms of interdiscourse and intradiscourse, the investigation into the social imaginary and Brazilian common sense in relation to the film Braveheart.