SYSTEMIC-FUNCTIONAL AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ONLINE MATCHMAKING

Authors

  • Fábio Alexandre Silva Bezerra Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v13i1.11822

Keywords:

contemporary society. social bonds. language. discourse. abstract systems.

Abstract

In contemporary society, many are the genres and media used to create social bonds among people of the most different background, ages, classes and sexual orientations. In this context, the internet is occupying an ever increasing space in people’s everyday lives. This paper aims to demonstrate how language can be used to construe representations of the world that position people socially. Although the discourse of modern days seems to celebrate people’s individual life choices, overall results of the transitivity (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004; Martin; Matthiessen & Painter 2010) and discourse analysis (Caldas-Coulthard, 1997; Chouliaraki & Fairclough, 1999, Fairclough, 1989; Fairclough & Wodak, 1999; van Dijk, 1997) show that people are actually stimulated to find partners by carrying out concrete material actions. Additionally, and maybe contradictorily, the same people are expected to entrust abstract systems (Giddens, 1991) with the responsibility of finding these partners, thus revealing that the new era has impinged significant changes on relationships of intimacy.

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Author Biography

Fábio Alexandre Silva Bezerra, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

E specialista em ‘Linguística Aplicada ao Ensino de LínguasEstrangeiras’ (UFPB) e mestre em ‘Língua Inglesa e Literatura Correspondente’ (UFSC). Atualmente, está em processo de finalização de tese de doutoramento em ‘Língua Inglesa e Linguística Aplicada’ na UFSC (CNPq Processo nº142547/2008-5), em cotutela com o ‘PhD in Linguistics’ da University of Sydney. Como membro do NUPDiscurso (UFSC), desenvolve pesquisas com base na Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional, na Análise Crítica do Discurso, na Multimodalidade e em Estudos de Gênero Social. Entre seus principais interesses de pesquisa, destaca-se o estudo das representações de gênero social na mídia, especialmente na TV, em filmes e em revistas.

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Published

2012-07-03

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Bezerra, F. A. S. (2012). SYSTEMIC-FUNCTIONAL AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF ONLINE MATCHMAKING. Papers of Language and Society, 13(1), 82–101. https://doi.org/10.26512/les.v13i1.11822

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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2012)

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Artigos de pesquisa

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