IS SOMETHING OFF THE NEW INTERACTIONAL ORDER? INTERACTION AND TEXTUAL MOBILITY IN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES

In this essay, we confront language approaches that have sought to offer explanations of linguistic conditions in digital settings in considering digitalization only as a background to linguistic structures or processes already described outside these settings. To do this, we critically discuss two interactional models reinforced in language studies - Ferdinand de Saussure's speech circuit and Erving Goffman's interactional model - and we defend the moving character of the interactional text inserted in a political economy of texts in co-emerging digital infrastructures. Furthermore, the essay seeks to identify two linguistic ideologies articulated in the models and their regulatory forms and, in addition, we defend the use of a theoretical-methodological framework more prepared to deal with digital texts in an empirically committed way and critically attentive to the designs of digital infrastructures and the online-offline nexus.

Keywords:
Digital Settings; Interaction; Textual Mobility