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Abstract

The variation in the forms of treatment of the second person speech gives rise to several discussions (still) today. With the knowledge of the theoretical bases that support the view of the ecology of communicative interaction (COUTO, 2014), this article discusses -from the perspective of the social ecosystem of language -argumentative and interactional strategies used by law professionals to justify the use of forms of treatment in a judicial sentence available on websites and, in another case, during a session of the Supreme Federal Court. Based on the theory proposed by Couto et al. (2016), from a multi-methodological perspective, based on Critical Ecosystem Linguistics (LEC), in the perspectives of the theories of Interactional Sociolinguistics, with authors such as Kerbrat-Orecchioni (2006), Irvine (1978) Grácio (2010), Blommaert (2014), Ochs (1979), Levinson (1992), which involve concepts about argumentation and Conversation Analysis, the corpus was analyzed specifically in the cropped part exposed in some news sites -such as Exame, Terra and Época -and platforms for sharingdigital information -like Instagram and Twitter. The methodological guidance is qualitative, documentary and bibliographic, with data collection in the virtual public domain. The analysis of the corpus includes results based on concepts in the area such as diversity, (dis)harmony, adaptation in language, communion and social suffering -the latter caused, mainly, by the repercussion of criticism in the virtual environment.