Identifier: TFG:1548
Authors: Campillo Muñoz, Susana
Abstract:
Taking into account that, currently, violence is a very frequent phenomenon, this work aims to analyze a specific type of violence, namely linguistic violence. Specifically, our analysis deals with two topics: 1) the different degrees of violence in speech acts and the resources and techniques that are used to produce violent utterances. By considering politeness studies focused on impoliteness, we propose a categorization of violent speech acts that reflects different levels of violence, understanding, therefore, violence as a gradual and non-categorical concept. In order to reach our goals, a corpus of interactions extracted from Twitter and Facebook is analyzed. The rise of social networks, their ease of use and their features make of these platforms an excellent database for this type of analysis. The obtained results show a significant presence of high levels of linguistic violence in social networks. Moreover, results show that the implicitness characterizes in most cases these utterances. Those results led to reconsider the common idea that defends that explicitness is necessary in order to label an action as violent. It would be necessary to pay more attention to the violent implicit content of utterances which, as shown by the analysis, is not less violent than the explicit one.
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