Anticipassivity in Contemporary Political Discourse: Structure, Strategy, and Failure

This article presents and applies the concept of Anticipassivity, developed by the author as a constitutive structure of human enunciation. Unlike a mere rhetorical technique, Anticipassivity designates the operation by which the speaker, in the very act of speaking, already places themselves in the position of the one who receives, constructing an "other-symbol" that cooriginates meaning. The work details the three levels of operation (judgmental, interpretative, of response), the tension between them, the distinction between its structural and strategic modalities, and the possibility of anticipatory failure. The concept is applied to the analysis of six political figures—three Brazilian (Lula, Bolsonaro, Erika Hilton, Nikolas Ferreira) and two North-American (Trump, Harris)—demonstrating how the same structure operates with distinct configurations, producing differentiated communicative effects.