SPEECH ANALYSIS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS: THE INFLUENCE OF POSTS IN JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Abstract

The object of this article is to understand how the speech produced in social networks is inserted in the legal universe as evidence in judicial decisions to then discuss how the virtual universe cannot be considered as a local apart of our society, since the discourse produced there reflects in the life of the users. The methodology used is the linguistic analysis of speech of a social network user in various cases of hate, situations in which the defendant has been repeatedly condemned from the acceptability of his virtual speech as judicial evidence. As a result, is notable that the virtual ambient is also part of our society and the increasing hate attacks is this space in the last years are within the reach of our legislation, so, grows every day the sentences condemning individuals because of the posts made in different social networks.