How does the language of social media form a common being?
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Date
2025-12-15
Authors
Dafcheva, Maria
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Plovdiv University Press
Abstract
The question of how the language of social media forms a common being has turned out to be especially interesting in contemporary times. In the present article, I will focus on it. Social media gives us the opportunity for constant and continuous communication in real time, provides us with access to all types of information, and is an inseparable part of people’s lives. This happens through the mediation of language. We use language every day, but we do not think about how it forms and, at the same time, determines our being. Our idea of the world is directly reflected in the meaning that we put into words and the way in which we communicate. Language is conditioned by the rules that we follow, even if we do not always realize it. In this sense, the text is positioned on the boundary between philosophy of language, ontology, and epistemology.
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language, meaning, community, Wittgenstein, being, social media