Polemical interactions on the internet and the conversational maxims: limits between dissension and protest

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https://doi.org/10.22481/el.v16i1.4884

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This paper analyzes linguistically the postings made by readers on the Internet commenting on a newspaper article and highlights the implicatures of the conversational maxims studied by Grice (1991) in the construction of the controversy, understood as an argumentative modality (AMOSSY, 2017), in order to show how discursively materializes one of the functions that this modality has assumed on the Internet: that of protest. In this sense, the work suggests that an evaluation of the breaking of conversational maxims can constitute a criterion to draw the boundaries between the controversy as an argumentative modality and verbal violence.

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Manoel Francisco Guaranha, Santo Amaro University (UNISA / Brazil)

Manoel Francisco Guaranha is a PhD and a Master in Letters (Portuguese Literature) from the University of São Paulo. He is currently a professor at Santo André and Ipiranga Faculties of Technology (FATECs / Brazil) and professor of the Master's Program in Human Sciences at the University of Santo Amaro (UNISA / Brazil). He has experience in Literature, with emphasis in Portuguese Literature, working mainly in the following subjects: discourse analysis, Brazilian literature, argumentation, reading and discourse.

Ana Lúcia Tinoco Cabral, Cruzeiro do Sul University (UNICSUL / Brazil)

Ana Lúcia Tinoco Cabral é doutora em Língua Portuguesa pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP/Brasil). Realizou pesquisa de pós-doutoramento na EHESS (Paris-França). É professora titular da Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul (UNICSUL/Brasil), atuando no Mestrado em Linguística. Tem experiência na área de Linguística, especialmente em leitura e escrita. O quadro teórico que dá suporte às suas pesquisas alia a Linguística Textual à Semântica Argumentativa e aos estudos da Enunciação. Atua nos seguintes temas: linguagem argumentativa, interação verbal escrita, linguagem jurídica, polidez linguística e uso da linguagem em práticas educativas a distância.

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Published

2019-06-26

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GUARANHA, M. F.; CABRAL, A. L. T. Polemical interactions on the internet and the conversational maxims: limits between dissension and protest. Language Studies, [S. l.], v. 16, n. 1, p. 119-133, 2019. DOI: 10.22481/el.v16i1.4884. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/estudosdalinguagem/article/view/4884. Acesso em: 24 jan. 2025.

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2018): Estudos da Língua(gem) - ISSN: 1982-0534

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