The use of the “#SóQueSim” construction on Facebook
a semantic-cognitive analysis
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Cognitive Linguistics, Virtual Language, Construction Grammar, Irony, Conceptual BlendingAbstract
In this work, we propose an analysis about the “#SóQueSim” construction, recruited as an irony indicator in interactions established through written posts on the widespread social network Facebook, a multimodal digital genre. In this social network, we can notice a high frequency of use of the theme construction of our article, mainly in the form of the hashtags “#SóQueSim” or “#SQS”. We base it on theoretical assumptions anchored in Cognitive Linguistics, above all, the Construction Grammar, by Goldberg (1995) and the Conceptual Blending, by Fauconnier and Turner (2002). We also seek to show that the extensions of meaning that convey irony – understood according to Coulson (2001; 2005) – are provided pragmatically, from the context of use of this expression. Irony is a linguistic resource widely used in the most varied texts in the written and oral modality. The analysis revealed that the real understanding of the meaning effects of the construction “#SóQueSim” is only possible within a given context of use, which thus reiterates the importance of the communicative scenario. We also found that “#SóQueSim”, in addition to discursively marking the effect of irony, plays, in the textual portions in which it appears, the role of trigger for reiterating the ideas presented.
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