TRANSLOCALITY, REPERTOIRES AND INDEXICALITY: CONSTITUTIVE EFFECTS OF CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSE IN SUPERDIVERSE DIGITAL SPACES

Abstract

In this article, we discuss how the different encounters with the language take us to different levels of knowledge/linguistic recognition converted into super diverse linguistic repertoires/speeches. In this sense, we support the discussion of Blommaert (2010, 2015); Blommaert & Backus (2012); Silverstein (1985) and Vertovec (2007), on how the linguistic repertoires of superdiverse contexts are ideologically loaded with semiotic features; of implicit values of identity and power that generate levels of indexicality, marks left of interactions with the languages that determine feelings of belonging, culture, identity and roles in society. In discussing these situated socio-historical schemas of human activities, we look at the interactions of social life in its historicity, seeking local interpretations of these activities, based on a translocal vision attributed to genre, manipulation, power, ideological positions and identity. For this discussion, we seek in online interactions of digital newspapers in Brazil, to understand how superdiverse linguistic repertoires/discourses of heads of state (Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, Jair Bolsonaro) of a specific ideological culture, mediated in situations of human interest, indexicalize local linguistic repertoires/discourses, that is, they leave marks of feelings of belonging, culture, and identity in our Brazilian context.