A construção da coerência textual em postagens da Rede Social X

Abstract

This work has the general objective, within the scope of Textual Linguistics, to investigate how the construction of coherence in posts of the social network X occurs, taking into account how the discursive topic develops and how referents are updated. For this purpose, we continued the studies initiated by Paveau (2021) that focus on the entries "comment" and "expansion", complementing the typologies presented by the analyst of digital discourse, to deepen the notion of coherence - justification of this research. With this, we adopted as specific objectives to analyze how the discursive topic is developed in posts of social network X and verify, through parameters linked to referential networks, how referents are updated in posts of social network X, taking into account the construction of the senses. Therefore, in order to consolidate our goals, we collect and analyze a post from the social network X with their respective comments taken directly from its environment. For this, we use an exploratory-descriptive method of qualitative character and describe the information collected from each context. The results showed that the relationship of the post with the comments and vice versa implies, in our view, an expansion of coherence, because the meanings of the comments often depend on the initial post and the initial post may have its meaning expanded by these comments. Thus, coherence needs to be analyzed in the relationship between texts, in a movement of relation, considering how a text can coexist with another in the same context and how the construction of meaning can take place jointly. A text can depend on the other so that the meanings are fully established. Therefore, it is necessary to understand coherence not as something restricted to a single text, but as a process that takes place between texts.