Vozes virtuais da notícia : um olhar sobre as vozes que emergem em enunciados do facebook

Abstract

With the rise of news on social networks, more specifically on Facebook, where information is fast spread, reaching thousands of people in different places worldwide, it becomes necessary to understand and explain the meanings in discourse in interaction among internet users. The rapid expansion of digital genres a term adopted by Marcuschi (2010), which refers to new ways of communication such as blogs, chats, online-magazines, among many others available on the Internet has caught the attention and curiosity of linguists, since these new genres paved the way to different forms of language and interaction that deserve to be analyzed and discussed within the discursive sphere. This research intends to analyze comments posted on Veja Magazine profileon Facebook Social Network. The general objective is to analyze how the meaning of an utterance can be explicit in the confrontation of the different voices present in the discourse of speakers and interlocutors. The specific objectives aim at: a) verifying how the discourse of the interlocutor to whom the post is directed emerges with the speaker s discourse (b) understanding how the points of view (the many voices of the discourse) interact in the comments posted by internet users. The corpus for this work comprises: the cover headline from Veja Magazine, which highlights the case of beagle dogs used as guinea pigs for drug testing at the Instituto Royal laboratory; the utterance that preceded the comments posted by internet users, as well as the first fifteen comments selected right after the headline was posted. The magazine cover was posted on Facebook on December 28th, 2013. The data for this research was collected from October 2013 to June 2014. The research is based on the theoretical assumptions advocated by Bakhtin about discursive genres and dialogism. Some concepts proposed by Marcuschi (2008, 2010) about digital genres were also approached.