“My word is sharp and contaminate”: linguistic-discursive analysis of racist comments implicitly manifested on Facebook

Abstract

This paper is the investigation and analysis of racist discourses against black people, which were recorded in comments on Facebook and posted by users themselves on the website of this virtual network. In order to investigate and analyze discriminatory discourses, aiming at those of implicitly manifest segregation, it was evaluated how such phrases contributed to the maintenance of inequalities resulting from social relations of domination, with strategies and discursive resources of mobilization and influence. Therefore, the generation of the analyzed data resulted from a collection based on the qualitative and interpretive method, which were described and examined from the perspective of the theoretical-methodological paradigm provided by the Critical Discourse Analysis (ADC) and also by the critical conception of the ideology studies. The corpus consists of four discursive samples, one of which is illustrated by a distinct figure in its original arrangement. Thus, it was found that the subjects / users resorted to various ideologically based prejudiced strategies in their discourses, although disguised, contributing to the hegemony of inequalities, where the continuity of conflicts in ethnic-racial relations prevails.