Tow ideas in field: referencing processes during interaction in the Fla-Flu debates
Referencing; Polarization; Dispute
Since 2014, Brazil has been noticing the continuing rise of its historical political-ideological conflicts. The result of this process is the polarization of Brazilian society concerning relevant events of national political scenario. This work starts from this context to investigate the discursive dimension of the polarization amid a verbal confrontation. Our main objective is to analyze the interactive construction of objects-of-speech in Fla-Flu, an online TV show which promoted debates along 2016. Our purpose is to observe the impacts of the polarized speech in the referencing processes during interaction in two of the Fla-Flu debates. To achieve this, we firstly map the referential progress of these debates following the concept of referencing strategies (MARCUSCHI & KOCH, 2002; 2006). Then, we reconstitute the referential chains formed along the construction of objects-of-speech related to the context of political and social polarization. Finally, we analyze these referential chains in the light of the notions of polarization (AMOSSY, 2017) and of dispute as a kind of polemic speech (DASCAL, 1994). Our results reveal that the participants of Fla-Flu debates engage not to achieve understandings or solutions, but to perpetuate the polarized speech and reinforce the opposing positions. This suggests that the polarized interaction impact the referencing processes, as it implies in a deepening of the preexistent instability between discursive categories and the reality itself.