A violência na linguagem em atos de fala sobre o impeachment de 2016 no Facebook

Abstract

The President Dilma Vana Rousseff’s impeachment process, in 2016, in Brazil, provoked the highly manifestation of exalted comments on social networks, especially on Facebook. On these comments, alongside the defense of political positions, that is, commonly, known intolerance discourse. This fact allowed us to presuppose that the language has being used to injure and, on this, we proposed as study object the "language violence in Facebook speech acts". This research objective was to analyze the influence of the violence in language speech acts published on Facebook about impeachment, specifically on pages Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL) and Frente Brasil Popular (FBP) based on linguistics choices and the illocutionary force. Our research is driven by a conception of language as action, with an epistemological basis in philosophy (AUSTIN, 1990) and by a perspective of deconstructive reading of speech acts of the New Pragmatics (RAJAGOPALAN, 2003, 2010, 2014). In order to do that we selected 11 posts followed by their comments published on the MBL and FBP pages updated from April 2016 to August 2017. One of comments’ selection criteria was to refer directly or indirectly to Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment. From this, we extracted a sample from the comments published in each of these posts that were our corpus for the analysis. There are several intolerant discourses on the samples: disrespect, aggression, insult and injury from the identification of illocutionary acts as performatively violent. It was also possible to demonstrate how the linguistic choices used for naming use nouns as epithets to demonstrate political-ideological positions and, consequently, to unveil policies of representation that disqualify the other that stands on the opposite side.