THE COMMUNICATION IN DIGITAL ERA

SOCIAL NETWORKS SLANGS

Abstract

ABSTRACT:  This work had as general objective to analyze the main slangs that circulate in  digital context, mainly in the social networks, and its importance for the communication in this environment. As specific objectives, we seek to: 1) identify the main slangs that circulate on social networks Facebook and WhatsApp; 2) verify the importance of knowledge of this specific vocabulary for communication in these networks and 3) observe whether these slangs can be classified as belonging to groups or common. As theoretical bases, we based our analysis on authors such as Galli (2005) and Marcuschi (2005), about the Digital Era and the communication that emerges in it, in addition to Preti (1984; 2000; 2004) about slang, and Moreira and Januário (2014) about social media. Methodologically, this was a descriptive-interpretative research, with a qualitative approach, whose corpus of analysis was composed of slangs present in posts and conversations on the aforementioned social networks, with the concealment of user names, as well as an online questionnaire. The results showed that knowledge of the slangs that circulate on social networks is extremely important for interaction in these environments. With this study, we established the slang as an important component of verbal interaction in social networks, distancing itself from a prescriptive and normative perspective regarding this use, but showing it as an essential linguistic element for interaction in these contexts.

KEYWORDS: Communication Mediated by Computer. Social Networks. Slangs. Interaction.