@MASTERSTHESIS{ 2020:1053412169, title = {Sexist hate speech on twitter : an analysis of flouting in comments left on female politians posts}, year = {2020}, url = "https://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/11431", abstract = "With the increasing manifestation of trolling and other forms of abusive speech online, many female celebrities have been receiving abusive comments on their accounts on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook whenever they decide to make their point of view known by their followers. Many comments are a manifestation of sexist hate speech. As twitter politics against hate speech has become more rigid, trolls are making use of other language mechanism to harm their target. In this thesis we aimed to analyze some of the comments left on the politicians? posts on twitter, under the light of Grice?s Theory of Cooperative Principles, to demonstrate how aggressors flout the main conversational maxims to produce efficient sexist hate speech without being caught on the filter applied by Twitter. We found out that the Maxim of Relation was flouted on most of the tweets selected to the analysis. We concluded that, although advanced, the filters applied on websites like twitter cannot compare to the human ability to detect the implicatures beyond the level of what is said", publisher = {Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul}, scholl = {Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Letras}, note = {Escola de Humanidades} }