STYLISTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSING PERSONAL IDENTITY IN ENGLISH INTERNET DISCOURSE

The development of social media has created new opportunities for individuals to construct, modify, and publicly present their identities. In digital communication, users are not limited to direct statements about their names, professions, social roles, or personal characteristics. Identities are relationally constructed through several, often overlapping, aspects of the relationship between self and other, including similarity/difference, genuineness/artifice and authority/ delegitimacy; and (5) identity may be in part intentional, in part habitual and less than fully conscious, in part an outcome of interactional negotiation, in part a construct of others’ perceptions and representations, and in part an outcome of larger ideological processes and structures.[2; 2005:P.406]