Reactions to Social Quotas: a study of Facebook comments in Brazilian Portuguese
This paper aims to discuss how Facebook users reacted to the news that the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) introduced social quotas for socially vulnerable transsexuals, immigrants and refugees. It tries to understand how lexicogrammatical choices might represent the various social entities whi...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) |
| Repositorio: | Revista da ABRALIN (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revista.abralin.org:article/1703 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revista.abralin.org/index.php/abralin/article/view/1703 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional Transexuais Refugiados Linguística do Corpus. Avaliatividade Systemic-Functional Linguistics Transsexuals Refugees Corpus Linguistics Appraisal |
| Resumo: | This paper aims to discuss how Facebook users reacted to the news that the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil) introduced social quotas for socially vulnerable transsexuals, immigrants and refugees. It tries to understand how lexicogrammatical choices might represent the various social entities which are present in users’ comments. Data was automatically scraped from Facebook using Netvizz, and “R” scripts were written to process and analyse linguistic features. Results show that most of the comments are related to the interactions amongst users during the process of taking a stand in favour and against the system of quotas. There are also comments related to prejudice against northeast citizens and states. Grammatical patterns could be identified for each of those general themes present in the comments. |
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