O processo inferencial da linguagem politicamente incorreta na Web 2.0 : uma abordagem em interfaces

Abstract

The research object of this paper is the inferential processing of politically incorrect language on the Internet. The aims of this paper are to describe the properties of the object and to evaluate inferential theories capacity to deal with it. In order to do so, an interdisciplinary approach is used, based on the Metatheory of Interfaces (COSTA, 2007). This paper is in a linguistic-cognitive-communicative perspective, as well as in a Semantics/Pragmatics interface. Inferences in natural language were investigated in this paper, therefore the inferential theories such as Grice s Implicature Theory (1975) were described and discussed, as well as the theories by Costa (2008), Levionson (2000) and Sperber & Wilson (1996). Since the notion of inference as ocurring in dialogues is assumed, theories of Dialogue by Bohm (1996), Walton (1989) and Costa (2011) were presented, as well as charactetistics of dialogues in virtual environments. Controversial topics are frequent on the Internet and bring about conversations and discussions that present language that is considered to be politically incorrect. Thus, notions on such language are presented, based on authors such as Lakoff (2000), Rajagopalan (2000) and Hornsby (2001). This theoretical framework leads this paper into the analysis, where it was possible to reason out that an interface approach is more effective to cope with the complexities of the inferences that occur in the politically incorrect language.