"Seje menas": um estudo sobre o preconceito linguístico no facebook

Abstract

This study analyses occurrences of linguistic discrimination in six posts taken from the page “Português da Depressão”(Portuguese of Depression in english), hosted on the website of the social network Facebook. To that end, concepts are used that try to characterize the space online and the details that cover this social network, trying to perceive the effects of meaning in the online language in the interactions that occur between the social network users. The study delivers a theoretical background that pursues outlining and offering a historical overview about the internet and the online sociability regarding the concept of territorynetwork. After that, a brief presentation of the internet slang is made correlating it to the linguistic discrimination, to subsequently approach a discursive and ideological bias on this phenomenon. For this purpose, the CMDA has been used, a methodology that proposes to study the online discursive phenomena. In the analyzes made, it was possible to confirm the hypothesis that the linguistic discrimination is accompanied by other social values. The low linguistic performance, for example, is correlated to a low intellectual level, and the discourses loaded with sarcasm and humor end up naturalizing and perpetuating the linguistic discrimination in the virtual environment.