Cabo de Guerra Verbal e Moral: um estudo do uso de categorias como ofensa no ambiente virtual / Verbal and Moral Tug of War: a study of the use of categories as offense in the virtual environment

Maria do Carmo Leite de Oliveira, Carolina Valente, Rony Ron-Ren
2020 Revista de Estudos da Linguagem  
Resumo: Uma questão que vem sendo destacada na mídia impressa e nas mídias sociais são os chamados "novos palavrões", isto é, o uso de categorias identitárias de natureza ideológica e política como formas de xingamento. Neste trabalho, contemplamos o fenômeno da categorização e sua relação com a sequencialidade e a moralidade, no processo de ressignificação dessas categorias. À luz de uma abordagem que integra os estudos sobre categorização de pertença (SACKS, 1995) aos estudos da organização
more » ... conversa (SACKS; SCHEGLOFF; JEFFERSON, 1974), analisamos reportagens sobre ações policiais no Rio de Janeiro, publicadas em um jornal digital, hospedado no YouTube, e os comentários produzidos pelos usuários sobre essas matérias. O objetivo Abstract: An issue that has been highlighted in print and social media are the socalled "new swear words", that is, the use of identity categories of an ideological and political nature as forms of insults. In this work, we contemplate the phenomenon of categorization and its relationship with sequentiality and morality, in the process of reframing these categories. In the light of an approach that integrates studies on membership categorization (SACKS, 1995) with studies of the organization of conversation (SACKS; SCHEGLOFF; JEFFERSON, 1974), we analyzed reports from a digital newspaper, hosted on YouTube, about police actions in the state of Rio de Janeiro, and the comments that the article elicits from channel users. The objective of the article is to investigate how the participants (channel and users) orient themselves, in their posts, to the categorization work when displaying and negotiating their understandings of what is being said/done turn by turn. The results reveal that the controversial nature of the topic and some of the tool's affordances (HUTCHBY, 2001) work as devices for the construction of a verbal and moral tug of war between those who affiliate and those who are defiled in the channel's position. The results also point to the influence of the design of the initial post format of the channel for the reaffirmation of the ideological and political positions of the members on each side, which has an impact on the hostile environment observed in parallel conversations between users. Given the polarized environment, the participants redefine categories attributed to the other, linking them to morally disapproved predicates.
doi:10.17851/2237-2083.28.4.1603-1636 fatcat:veoduannojccvh37firf2xi4sm