Impoliteness and Identity in threads about Brazilian politics on Twitter

Ricardo Rios Barreto Filho; Joseffer Maxi Maia Rodrigues

Ricardo Rios Barreto Filho Universidade Federal de Pernambuco http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2895-2981
Joseffer Maxi Maia Rodrigues Universidade Federal de Pernambuco http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7632-4229

Resumo

This paper aims to demonstrate how impoliteness is related to identity construction in threads on Twitter. For that, we analyze three threads about politics in Brazil, in which conflict and impoliteness occur. We draw on the discursive studies of (im)politeness (WATTS, 2003; MILLS, 2011, SPENCER-OATEY, 2002, 2005, 2007), the conventionalized formulae of impoliteness (CULPEPER, 2011), and the notions of identity and tactics of intersubjectivity (BUCHOLTZ; HALL, 2004a, 2004b, 2005). The results show that insults and other forms of impoliteness are associated with the identities constructed in the threads. They also indicate
that the discursive study of impoliteness can shed some light on how aggression is set on social media.

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