O alerta sobre o coronavírus no YouTube:

mobilidade empática e pathos na gestão dialógica de pontos de vista em confronto

Abstract

This paper aims to verify how the position of the science communicator Atila Iamarino, in his dialogical management of individual and third-party points of view (POV), leads to argumentative effects favorable to legitimation of science in a video published on YouTube. We take as our object the episode posted in March 2020 titled Live 20/03 – What Brazil needs to do in the coming days #StayAtHome. Based on Rabatel’s theory (2016a), we analyze how the modalization of the configurations of prise en charge modulates and hierarchizes the a priori antiorientated POV. In this video, the youtuber (L1/E1) defends strict measures in response to the covid-19 pandemic, in contrariety to the POV reticent to these measures (l2/e2 position). After analyzing different behaviors of heterodialogism, we obtained, inductively, two great regularities: “Tension with the adversary” and “Concession to the adversary”. From the status of the enunciators in the internal dialogism, we identified the mobilization of emotions (of oneself and of others) by L1/E1, which leads us to notions related to pathos and ethos of scientific communicability, for an explanatory procedure. The results reveal, in the two axes of analysis and in the interplay of different scenographies in which L1/E1 determinates himself in relation to the opponent (for example, the scenography of politeness), the L1/E1 empathizing with the l2/e2, with the pragmatic-discursive effect of mitigating the conflict. And in this constitution of the staged identity roles in the enunciation, which singularize the management as guided, for example, by the caution and collaboration, we see evidence of the tone of the clash in interdiscourse and of emotional aims (visées patémiques) congruents to this. 

KEYWORDS: Scientific popularization. Youtube. Commitment. Management of points of view. Empathy.