The construction of objects of discourse in Fake Profiles of the Twitter

Authors

  • Francisco Alves Filho
  • Leila Rachel Barbosa Alexandre

Keywords:

Referenciation, Object of discourse, Fake profile of Twitter

Abstract

In this paper, taking as presupposition the idea that referenciation is a discursive process carried out during the construction of the text (MONDADA; DUBOIS, 2003; KOCH, 2005; MARCUSCHI, 2008), and also the understanding that discourse genres, according to their rhetorical and situational particularities, exert constraints for the referential processes, we aimed to analyze some peculiarities of the construction process of objects of discourse in posts produced in the fake profiles of Twitter, characterized by assuming the discursive logic of a celebrity and seeking to provoke fun and humor to the Internet users. The corpus is composed of a set of examples of posts that circulated in fake profiles parodying Brazilian celebrities and were chosen according to the more evident incidence of referential construction. As a result we can say that fake both offers the perspective for the construction of objects of discourse mentioned in posts and is itself tributary of such a construction.

Author Biographies

  • Francisco Alves Filho
    Professor Titular da Universidade Federal do Piauí – UFPI. Doutor em Linguística pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP.
  • Leila Rachel Barbosa Alexandre
    Professora da Universidade Federal do Piauí. Mestre em Letras – Estudos de Linguagem pela Universidade Federal do Piauí – UFPI.

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Issue

Vol. 12 No. 3 (2012): Referenciação

Section

Research article