La escritura en Facebook: representación de los mundos privados y conciencia lingüística de los estudiantes de la Universidad de Cuenca

Abstract

The present work studies the writing of a group of students of the Universidad de Cuenca in the social network Facebook,virtual platform that has become, through the years, in one of the most popular virtual platforms among youth masses. The objective of this research was to determine the linguistic particularities of the users’ publications to know how they are built, and how they represent the identity and the privative worlds in this social network; as well as the grade of the linguistic awareness that the authors of these texts have. The type of research method was qualitative, from descriptive and interpretive order, and it was based on the discourse analysis methodology for the study of the linguistic corpus, and the implementation of surveys to collect information on language awareness. The main results indicated that the Facebook platform allows the construction of a particular linguistic identity that detaches intentionally from the standard to the purpose of indicating the belonging of this social network.