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    Published: 2025-06-27
    No. 21 (2025)

    Linguistic determinants of exhibitionism in the private group of Facebook

    Justyna Majchrowska
    Media - Culture - Social Communication
    Section: Articles
    https://doi.org/10.31648/mcsc.9427

    Abstract

    This article is a part of the stream of linguistic research on language in social life. It highlights the contemporary mediatized society, subjected to various influences, including fashion, universally understood exhibitionism, and maximum disclosure of one’s private life, health-related, to obtain pursued support, advice, or notice. This article presents sing genealogical analysis of the text and the qualitative method, the schematic structure (initial delimitators, corpora with segmentation and final delimitators) of internet posts, and further describes the linguistic indicators of internet exhibitionism. Internet communication, in a way, forces schematic nature of this genre in the structural aspect, in connection with the template layout of the Facebook social portal, where the analysed closed group is located; and linguistically through the spontaneous and expressive expressions of interlocutors who create posts, functioning as initiators of a discussion on a specific topic. To present their fate, users operate with written version of a modern Polish language. The study distinguished a colloquial style in its neutral and emotional-colloquial variation, within the syntax (order subordinated to the communicative intention, syntactic abbreviations and ellipses, syntax flows, polysyndeton, unfinished utterances, anacoluthon, and number of repetitions) and lexis with their modifications within selected parts of speech, i.e., nouns, adjectives, and verbs. Among nouns, there are noun, adjectival and verbal, created from typical formants and adequate bases in the informational, nominative function or showing emotional relationship of the sender, with the described activity, process, or state. These are transposition transformations. The participants of the internet discourse use noun, verbal, and adjective adjectives, among which superlatives are the basis of descriptions; an occurrence motivated by intensification of the conveyed content and maximization of emotionality. Prefixal verb derivatives constitute a various group in the exemplification material, in which there are terminative and normative-perdurative formations, reproductive names and names of transformations, including those related to health, i.e., changes in the mental and/or physical state of the writer. The colloquial style is a functional style that is the main exponent of the exhibitionism of the broadcasters’ texts. In the linguistic layer, it implements all the stylistic features, including through use of various linguistic mechanisms, including contrasting and universalization, as well as the use of graphic categories (punctuation, emoticons).

    Keywords:

    social communication, media, linguistic indicators of exhibitionism, Internet discourse, social networking site

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    Majchrowska, J. (2025). Linguistic determinants of exhibitionism in the private group of Facebook . Media - Culture - Social Communication, (21). https://doi.org/10.31648/mcsc.9427

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