Abstract
The objective of this article is to analyze the established discourses in conversations among members of WhatsApp group “Academia Saudável” (Healthy Academy), having as central issue the controversy of the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine medicines in the treatment of Covid-19. For the analysis, the concepts of concrete utterance, responsible act, alien and authorial discourse, field of communication and discourse genres of Bakhtin's Dialogical Theory of Language and the Circle were summoned. The results demonstrate that each individual of the group has a prominent role in guaranteeing the conversation theme through his/her discursive positionings favorable or not to the use of these drugs in the fight against the new coronavirus.
Highlights
Subjects that use social networks have the purpose of interacting with the other, to position themselves on any topic, giving their opinion for or against it, or aiming not to know about a given theme, such as the coronavirus pandemic
This article aims to analyze the discursive positions established in conversations on the WhatsApp application regarding the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine drugs to combat Covid-19
WhatsApp conversations are engendered by discursive positionings as several ideological propositions which are established in the interaction between subjects
Summary
Subjects that use social networks have the purpose of interacting with the other, to position themselves on any topic, giving their opinion for or against it, or aiming not to know about a given theme, such as the coronavirus pandemic. Social networks are one of the fields of human communication In this field, WhatsApp conversations are engendered by discursive positionings as several ideological propositions which are established in the interaction between subjects. WhatsApp conversations are engendered by discursive positionings as several ideological propositions which are established in the interaction between subjects These positionings are constructed within the relationship of alien discourses in several other fields: in politics, in science and in the media. The vast majority of discourses in social networks that discuss about coronavirus are vectors for the spread of ideologies that defend discourses of absolute truth in the Brazilian context, without accepting conter-arguments or listening to other opinions, especially in public policies to combat the pandemic
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