IMPOLITENESS AND IDENTITIES IN AN ONLINE INTERACTION ON FACEBOOK: A SOCIODISCURSIVE APPROACH

Abstract The social networking websites, such as the Facebook, have become a place for political and ideological conflicts between the interlocutors, generating offensive language and identity disputes. This paper aims to present the contributions that the identity studies can provide to the impoliteness analysis (the use of language to cause offense) in online interactions. For this purpose, it proposes a qualitative and interpretative analysis of a Facebook post and its respective comments. The results suggest that the combined study between the impoliteness and identities is capable of showing that the offense processes in this online platform are normally inferential and rely on identification processes with the impoliteness in the texts.