The function of discourse in digital social networks

Abstract

Our discourse is produced at different levels of meaning, many of which we are not aware of: they remain, so to speak, hidden in the folds of the discourse. This is where the tools of semiotics can help us explain the production of these levels of meaning. Thus, to understand the process of signification, it is pertinent to use the concepts of intertextuality, dialogue, and polyphony. Bakhtin teaches us that the signs are not autonomous, but they are committed to a whole network of texts and contexts. We believe that our ideas show originality, uniqueness; However, when we produce a message, we barely realize that it is the result of other crossing texts and voices.