‘Your Excelency forget me’: values of the conciseness in a media designation

Abstract

This paper analyzes, by the point of view of the Discourse Analysis of French line, the senses of laconism. We take as materiality the statement ‘Your Excelency forget me’ – categorized as laconic on the Facebook page of the newspaper Folha de São Paulo –, pronounced by the Brazil’s Supreme Court minister Ricardo Lewandowski. This statement was an answer to the accusation of heterodoxy made by the minister Gilmar Mendes, also Brazil’s Supreme Court member. Our objective is to demonstrate how the comprehension of this designation (this what you are saying is laconic) is due by the functioning of a preconstructed that erase/resume a memory. In fact, the sense effects of Lewandowski statement stems from the sayings on Ancient Greece (Sparta, in particular).  We concluded that being laconic, before as now, is associated with to have honor, to be honest, to be true and to have integrity.