Expressive speech acts in the social network Facebook

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze, from the quantitative and qualitative profile, the subtypes of expressive speech acts used by users of the social network Facebook with private profiles. After inquiring into the theory of speech acts, the subtypes of expressive speech acts designed by Searle (1976), Norrick (1978), Carretero and others (2014) and Maíz-Arévalo (2017) are detailed. The methodology used in this research has been created ad hoc taking into account, on the one hand, the previous taxonomies and, on the other hand, the specific needs of the corpus. Animating conforms a subtype that does not appear in the cited models. As a result, it should be noted that congratulating is the option most used. These are the percentages: congratulate (45.19%), thank (16.72%), approve (9.96%), animate (8.54%), admire (7.11%), greet (6.76%), welcome (2.13%), lament (1.77%), transmit joy (1.42%) and disapprove (0.35%).