Conceptualização e representação de grupos político-sociais na língua portuguesa representados por insultos em redes sociais

Abstract

This paper has as its objective, to analyze and map, based on theories connected to Cognitive Semantics, the frames accessed in the conceptualization and representation of different socio-political groups, particularly during insult exchanges in comments of posts and news related to the 2022 Brazilian presidential election in the social network Facebook. The utilization of insults is omnipresent in human language, used in the expression of a myriad of feelings, from familiarity and happiness, confusion and doubt, to anger and frustration. Frames can be understood as systems of knowledge that are evoked in the use and comprehension of different terms, as an example, the lexical item “anti-vaxxer”, which requires adjacent knowledge such as “vaccines”, “negationism” and “individualism”. For this end, a quantitative analysis was carried out, which consisted in the compilation of a corpus containing comments collected in the “g1 - O Portal de Notícias da Globo” Facebook page, in posts regarding news regarding the, then recent, 2022 Brazilian presidential election; following that, a qualitative analysis, which consisted in the identification of terms which had potential to be used as insults or curse words, as well as the classification of how they were utilized . The classification was based on the cognitive domains and frames that identify the insult target groups and the users. This way, it was possible to categorize and illustrate the manners which each socio-political group conceptualize each other in social network posts through insults and curse words utilized against their political-ideological rivals and/or opponents