A construção referencial em compósitos de gêneros na mídia Facebook

Abstract

This paper seeks to investigate the reference construction in texts that circulate on Facebook pages. In this investigation, we defend that the texts of this media are presented in a composite of genres and that the referential construction should be observed in view of this grouping. This study is linked to the perspective of Textual Linguistics practiced in Brazil, especially in investigations by the Protexto research group of the Federal University of Ceará, and is based on recent research in the field of referencing (CAVALCANTE, 2011, CUSTÓDIO-FILHO, 2011; CAVALCANTE & BRITO, 2016; MATOS, 2018). For this analysis, we selected a post published on the Facebook page of the newspaper O Povo on November 27, 2020 on a statement by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro regarding Covid-19. This work allowed us to realize that the (re)elaboration of the referent “Covid-19” requires the reader to report to anchors given not only in the main post of the newspaper, but also in other elements of this composite, such as comments.