MC battles are part of a long oral and musical tradition of the African American and Latino community. In this paper, we intend to analyze the battle punchlines under he light of the theory of linguistic impoliteness ...

This study aims at analyzing the role of metadiscursive comments as impoliteness strategy performed by political opponents in two electoral debates. According to Cunha and Braga (2018, p. 171), the metadiscursive comment ...

A pesquisa analisa a (im)polidez no Supremo Tribunal Federal do Brasil durante o Julgamento da Ação Penal 470, conhecido como “o Julgamento do Mensalão”. Ela tem como objetivo investigar como as estratégias de (im)polidez ...

Entrevistas são interações do tipo face a face em que o entrevistado e o entrevistador interagem verbalmente expondo, ambos, sua auto-imagem social (face). Dessa forma, os envolvidos na interação verbal correm sempre o ...

Hashtags are prevalent in the interpersonal spaces of Twitter, as well as in the debates on many different subjects. A hashtag usually encourages people to start discussions about a proposed topic. The number of responses ...

With the technological innovations connected to the Internet, new types of social relations emerge. Important and rapid changes in the forms of interaction and communication become part of lives of an increasing number of ...

Con el incremento de la internet y de otros medios tecnológicos, las comunicaciones por online también fueron evolucionando. En ese continuo crecimiento, las redes sociales están entre los ambientes interactivos más populares ...

Considering online comments as a genre of controversial potential that favors the emergence of impolite acts—as it generally presents antagonistic points of view—, this paper aims to assess the potentiality of the Modular ...

Considering the widespread use of hashtags on Twitter, the purpose of this paper is to analyze how hashtags were used to express love and hate for candidates who ran for presidency in Brazil in 2018. The theoretical framework ...