Controversy and Disagreement Among Online Newspaper Readers: An Analysis Procedure to Characterize Verbal Violence
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Disagreement, Folha de S.Paulo, Impoliteness, Controversy, Verbal violenceAbstract
This article aims to discuss an analysis procedure for verbal violence, correlating interactional and rhetorical-discursive aspects related to its emergence conditions, especially controversy and disagreement, and its manifestation forms, in terms of impoliteness and appraisal. Theoretically, the conceptions of controversy, disagreement, and agreement are grounded in rhetorical and discursive approaches (Perelman; Olbrechts-Tyteca, 2020; Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 1980; Amossy, 2017; Neves, 2017). The manifestations of verbal violence will consider Culpeper's (1996; 2005; 2011) impoliteness theory and the attitude and graduation subsystems of the appraisal system (Martin; White, 2005) from a systemic-functional perspective (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004). The corpus, selected to illustrate the method, comprises comments from the online newspaper Folha de S.Paulo regarding the issue of abortion, a potentially controversial topic. Initial analysis results have shown the productivity of our model to refine the description of verbal violence acts. We have observed the importance of disagreement between values and value hierarchies for the emergence of verbal violence and the high incidence of attitude instances linked to judgments of social sanction, scoped by high intensification resources, as an evaluation strategy in response to disagreements.
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