Agritoxins versus Pesticides: Reading Notes about Polemic and Discursive Amemory

ABSTRACT In this article, we take as an object of study, on the one hand, excerpts from Bill 6299 of 2002 - PL 6299-2002 - known as the Agritoxin Law, authored by Blairo Maggi, the Minister of Agriculture during President Michel Temer's administration, and, on the other, the polemic ensuing from the recent passage of this bill, whose goal is to loosen the criteria for approval and risk analysis and to propose changes in the denominations that are currently used to refer to agritoxins, by the Special Committee in the Lower House. In order to discuss the latter objective, we have taken segments of the texts that circulated in multiple Brazilian media questioning the approval of the above-cited project, referring to it as the Poison Bill. We have anchored our work in the contributions of Ruth Amossy's theory on the argumentative character of polemic and also in Marie-Anne Paveau's approaches to the relations between language and moral, especially with regard to the concept of discursive amemory.

摘要 本研究的研究对象包含两部分：其一为2002年第6299号法案（PL 6299-2002）的节选文本，该法案又称《农业毒素法案（Agritoxin Law）》，由米歇尔·特梅尔（Michel Temer）政府时期的农业部长布拉伊罗·马吉（Blairo Maggi）起草；其二为该法案近期通过后引发的争议——该法案由巴西众议院特别委员会推动，旨在放宽审批与风险分析标准，并对当前用于指代农业毒素的称谓提出修改。为探讨后者（即称谓修改）的目标，本研究选取了巴西多家媒体流传的相关文本片段，这些文本均对上述法案的获批提出质疑，并将其称为“毒药法案（Poison Bill）”。本研究的理论锚点包括吕丝·阿莫西（Ruth Amossy）关于争议之论证性特征的理论，以及玛丽-安娜·帕沃（Marie-Anne Paveau）关于语言与道德关系的研究视角，尤其是其提出的“话语失忆（discursive amemory）”概念。