Polemical speech and interaction on Twitter and on readers’ comments: Malvinas case during last CFK’s tenure

Abstract

This paper studies media and public speeches produced and diffused in social media during Cris-tina Fernandez de Kirchner’s last year of government. Taking as a starting point news published by La Nación online about the President’s participation in America’s Summit 2015, we compare the readers’ comments and tweets originated as a reaction to this headline. From the perspective of Discourse Analysis, we analyze the discursive strategies through which Internet users build certain positions about government’s political actions towards the Malvinas conflict. We identify different strategies which we group according to Amossy’s classification in three main items: polarization, dichotomization and disqualification. Each one varies from one platform to another. Thus, we try to make some considerations on polemical speech, while contributing to online media research.

Keywords

• Discurso polémico. Redes sociales. Estrategias discursivas. Análisis del Discurso.