AMADIO DÉBORA MÓNICA
Congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Convergence and conflict in online interaction
Lugar:
Columbus, South Carolina
Reunión:
Congreso; 5th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA-5); 2022
Institución organizadora:
American Pragmatics Association & University of South Carolina
Resumen:
Departing from the theoretical perspective of pragmatics (Du Bois & K.rkk.inen 2012; Verschueren 2012; Zienkowski et al., 2011) and critical sociolinguistics (Eckert 2019; Blommaert 2018; Carranza & Vidal 2013), I examine aspects of the intersubjective dimension and its manifestation in online interaction. The data come from six Facebook pages in which participants share and comment on their own and others? experiences with violence against women perpetrated by men in Argentina. The sequences analyzed, published in the public forum, begin with a post featuring the narratives of the violent acts and a photograph of the beaten or murdered woman. Previous research conducted in comparable online contexts include Kuperberg (2021) and del Valle Nunez (2018). I show that the particular interactional stance (Du Bois 2007) expressed in an opening post conditions the nature of the recommendations offered by Facebook followers. One of the patterns detected involves the tendency to recurrently adopt a stance that is convergent with the one expressed by the participant who initiates a sequence. The other one concerns the orchestrated defense of that initial stance. The study reveals the specific ways in which epistemic and affective aspects connected with stance-taking index in-group membership. In the conclusions, I argue that the discourse against gender violence includes communicative practices of vigilance which ultimately seek to produce a disciplining effect. I also discuss the implications of reprimanding voices that call for less aggressive and more polite ways of communication when representing perpetrators and demanding justice.