Comportamiento del lenguaje de líderes políticos venezolanos en el uso de Twitter.

is article analyzes, from a linguistic-discursive perspective, the language behavior by the Venezuelan political leaders when producing messages in their Twitter accounts. ree hundred and fiy-six tweets were analyzed under a semantic and pragmatic approach and from the sociocognitive perspective of the critical discourse analysis. e results showed that: a) the revocatory referendum against President Nicolás Maduro and his Patria Plan were the most recurring topics, and b) the profusion of negative lexical units as well as linguistic actions of assertion and insult provided the standard of verbal offense defining the political discourse. It is concluded that the communicative intention of the leaders focused mostly on increasing the discursive contention rather than promoting a true peace dialogue in the Venezuelan political context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]