Banca de DEFESA: JOSEFFER MAXI MAIA RODRIGUES

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STUDENT : JOSEFFER MAXI MAIA RODRIGUES
DATE: 05/03/2024
TIME: 10:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

IMPOLITENESS AND IDENTITIES IN QUEER NARRATIVES ON SOCIAL MEDIA

KEY WORDS:

Impoliteness; Queer Identities; Narratives; Social Media.

PAGES: 100
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUMMARY:

With the advent of the digital revolution, social interactions have increasingly become mediated by technology. The widespread use of social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, has become integral to contemporary life, facilitating connections and interactions among individuals. This accessibility to online platforms, coupled with the ease of expressing opinions and judgments while maintaining a degree of distance and anonymity, has contributed to the proliferation of impoliteness in online discourse. Thus, there is a pressing need to investigate how impoliteness manifests in digital environments and its impact on the individuals involved. This study aims to analyze the characteristics of impoliteness and the construction of identities among interactants, focusing on narratives shared by dissident subjects on social networking sites. We selected Facebook and Twitter for analysis due to their popularity, with Facebook being the most widely used social network in Brazil and Twitter having a significant user base globally. Twenty posts, along with their corresponding comments and replies, were collected from both platforms using a qualitative-interpretivist and ethnomethodological approach. From these, ten posts that met the research criteria and were deemed representative were selected for detailed analysis. Theoretical frameworks drawn from (Im)politeness Studies, Queer Theory, Linguistics, and "small stories" narratives were employed to guide our analysis. Our investigation aimed to identify how impoliteness is managed within these networks, examining the presence of conventionalized impoliteness formulas and the perspectives of queer subjects on their experiences. Furthermore, we explored the relationship between impoliteness and the construction of queer identities, considering identity formation as situated and narrative-driven. Our findings suggest a significant correlation between experiences of impoliteness and queer identities, highlighting a normalization of queer identities as unacceptable, abject, and abnormal within societal norms. This relational aspect of identities reinforces the dominance of the heteronormative matrix, perpetuating its claim to being the sole, appropriate, legitimate, and authentic identity.

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