O preconceito linguístico na rede social digital Instagram: um estudo de caso do Perfil Quebrando o Tabu

Abstract

This monograph addresses linguistic prejudice and its manifestations in society. This prejudice involves the inappropriate comparison of people's actual way of speaking with prescriptive grammar. To this end, this research aimed to analyze linguistic prejudice on the Instagram digital network, specifically a post from the "Quebrando o Tabu" profile and the comments on that post. To achieve this objective, we used the studies of Bagno (1999), who proposes eight myths about language, that is, about linguistic prejudice, which were essential for this work; Tarallo (2007), who highlights that the variants of a speech community are always in a relationship of competition: standard vs. non-standard; conservative vs. innovative; in addition, we worked with the authors Santos, Maria, and Lavareda (2019), who reflect on linguistic prejudice and digital media; among other scholars who contributed to this work. To achieve our objectives, we used an exploratory, descriptive, and qualitative research method. During the analysis, it was possible to perceive that language is used as a space of domination and accentuates class divisions, with linguistic prejudice being a result of social strata, where the Portuguese considered correct is used by the dominant class and the Portuguese considered incorrect is used by the less favored class. Linguistic variation or different ways of speaking are interpreted as a result of illiteracy, a view that was blatantly exposed in the post from the profile "Breaking the Taboo". Therefore, we can affirm that linguistic prejudice is a vicious cycle that is constantly reproduced throughout society.