Modismos en la red social Facebook en Guayaquil

Abstract

The use of idioms has been a constant in societies of all times because each people uses the language according to their needs. Thisresearch analyzesthe use of idioms proposed by Guayaquil Internet users in the social network Facebook in order to analyze, catalog and explain them for the understanding of these expressions used. The qualitative study is applied that starts from the bibliographic review of the studies carried out on the subject; At the same time, a virtual ethnography of the Facebook group "Shitpost Guayaco Next Generation" was carried out for six months, a content analysis was carried out and finally a survey was applied to one hundred and fifty members of the aforementioned group. The results obtained were the following, most of the members of the group use idioms during their interaction on the site, it is concluded that the use of idioms is a constant in the cultural groups of a city, in this case in Guayaquil and in the analyzed social network.