E na história de hoje...: uma análise do processamento inferencial em postagens do Facebook

Abstract

This article aims to analyze how inferential processing is called to (re)construct meanings in posts from Conselhos do He-Man fanpage on Facebook. To do so, we rely on Ducrot’s (1977; 1981; 1987) reflections on implicit meanings indicated by presuppositions and Grice’s (1982) formulations on the cooperation principle, the conversational maxims and implicature generation. As categories of analysis, we chose the expressions that activate presupposition and maxim breaks. Based on that, we conduct an analysis of four posts from the referred fanpage. The goal is to enlighten how the implicit is explored in that context. The results allow us to state that inferential processes called both by presuppositions and by implicature are fundamental to the understanding of text meanings, sometimes condensing the main information which is intended to be communicated to someone.