O interdiscurso nas comunidades virtuais antifeministas de "shitpost" e o uso do termo "feminazi" como processo de discriminação e vulgarização da mulher em estudo funcionalista e cognitivista

Abstract

This research arises from the importance of understanding the interactive contexts of use of the term “feminazi”, in anti-feminist communities of “shitpost”, as a process of discrimination and vulgarization of women. Our approach is based on the analysis of socio-cognitive linguistic learning categories, considering cultural transmission and biological determinism as elements of re-signification that also contribute to discrimination in the feminist movement as a guarantee of rights reserved for women. In this research, we seek to examine the iconicity related to the term “feminazi” in its form and function in the communicative act, in addition to its subprinciples analyzed in the comments referring to the “shitpost” reaffirming transgressive behaviors in a network. The objective is to analyze internet memes in the “shitpost” culture as a process of legitimizing discrimination and vulgarization of women in these communities. For the development of the research, we adopted the following authors as theoretical support: Tomasello (2003), Bourdieu (2002), Martelotta (2015), Van Dijk (2019), Butler (2003), Cunha (2010), Maingueneau (1997). Methodologically, the object of the research is the “shitpost”, its definition and the use of the term “feminazi” as an icon in the communicative act of these virtual communities. In this way, we selected “shitpost‟s”, memes and their respective comments that directly or indirectly refer to the term as a way of deepening discrimination between the sexes in these communities. We conclude that biological determinism is the main factor of discrimination, although its construction is based on cultural heritage as a way of perpetuating differences between genders and disregarding the individuality of being a woman, therefore, the research does not end here due to its relevance to functionalist studies and the interactionist process of language.