They did not run over him, they murdered him: conflictive interactions on Twitter around the attribution of responsibility for human rights abuses in Chile
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This article offers a discursive analysis of conflictive interactions on Twitter about the attribution of responsibility for human rights abuses. This research focuses on a case study, namely the death of a man after being run over by Carabineros on January 29, 2020, which provoked conflictive interactions on Twitter around the conceptualisation of responsibility. Consequently, the corpus is composed of tweets posted by TV channels/programmes in this context, and their replies. In order to understand how users react to these headlines and interact to defend they point of view and manage the conflict, the analysis looks at responsibility and agentivity, the representation of social actors and the linguistic mechanisms used to attenuate or intensify the responsibility. The analysis shows that the users tend to conceptualise responsibility in different ways, that they use intensification or attenuation in order to do so, and that their strategies vary according to whether they react to the headline or to the intervention of another user.
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