Contribuições da semiótica para a análise dos discursos na internet

Abstract

The article presents the contribution of linguist and semiotician Diana Luz Pessoa de Barros to studies about the discourse produced on the internet. Based on articles by the author, it comments not only on the central idea of her analysis, but also on the exemplarity of a researcher career in the field of linguistics. The discourse produced on the Internet presents, according to the author, characteristics of complexity, understood as a semiotic concept that houses the coexistence of contrary terms. Internet discourse is complex in relation to the oppositions between oral and written language and between the public and private domains. To formulate her conclusions, the author follows an exemplary research trajectory, either by articulating knowledge already sedimented with new theoretical contributions, or by being guided by data observed in varied corpora, or by formulating and systematizing concepts or indicating methodologies that have become reference for semiotics produced in Brazil and worldwide.