Open AccessCYBERDEMOCRACY: A NEW PHENOMENON IN SPANISH SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Author(s) -
Sofia K. Mosina
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
filologičeskie nauki v mgimo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-3717
pISSN - 2410-2423
DOI - 10.24833/2410-2423-2019-1-17-108-119
Subject(s) - phenomenon , lexis , sociolinguistics , emotive , sociology , linguistics , politics , social phenomenon , neologism , social science , political science , epistemology , anthropology , philosophy , law
Te article analyses ciberdemocracy as a new phenomenon that emerged in the Spanish society in the 21st century. Te development of digital technologies and ICT’s (in particular, Internet), which is substantiated by the statistics for the last decade provided by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics and the comparative analysis of data for 2008 and 2016, created new political instruments and means of getting ideas benefcial to certain political groups across to the electorate. Not only do linguists research into this phenomenon but also the Spanish Government. Te article presents characteristic features of ciberdemocracy, gives its defnition on the basis of those provided by Spanish authors and suggests a fgure that illustrates a systemic functioning of ciberdemocracy. Te inuence of the new phenomenon on the Spanish language is analysed from the point of view of social and cognitive linguistics: the emergence of NetSpeak, neologisms, the penetration of emotive lexis into messages due to the limited characters number for one message or post in social netwoks or web-sites, as well as new manipulative instruments of journalese discourse to exercise aect on the audience. Te article contains ideas of possible further changes in the Spanish language due to ciberdemocracy.