Despite the abundance of research into conspiracy theories, including multiple studies of Covid-19 conspiracy theories in particular, user reactions to conspiracy theories are an underexplored area of social media discourse. This study aims to fill this gap by examining a dataset of humorous responses to proliferating COVID-19 conspiracy theories based on a corpus of tweets bearing the pejorative hashtag #CovidConspiracy. We report the complex orchestration of heteroglossic discursive voices in these posts to reveal their rhetorical function, oriented towards expressing a negative stance and, in some cases, amounting to ridicule. The discursive effects of this interplay of voices entail imitation, parody, mockery and irony on the micro level, while on the interactional (macro) level, anti-conspiracy tweets jointly enact what we dub “polyvocal scorn”. It expresses multiple users’ trenchant critique and contempt for conspiracy theories, while the humour of the tweets serves to display the users’ wit and superiority over conspiracy theorists.

尽管对阴谋论的研究很多，尤其是对 Covid-19 阴谋论的多项研究，但用户对阴谋论的反应是社交媒体话语中未被充分探索的领域。本研究旨在通过基于带有贬义标签#CovidConspiracy 的推文语料库检查对激增的 COVID-19 阴谋论的幽默回应数据集来填补这一空白。我们报告了这些帖子中异语话语的复杂编排，以揭示它们的修辞功能，旨在表达消极立场，在某些情况下相当于嘲笑。这种声音相互作用的话语效果在微观层面上需要模仿、戏仿、嘲讽和讽刺，而在互动（宏观）层面上，反阴谋推文共同制定了我们所说的“多声轻蔑”。表达了多位网友对阴谋论的尖锐批判和蔑视，而微博的幽默则体现了网友对阴谋论者的机智和优越感。