La construction de représentations identitaires monolingues et multilingues sur les réseaux sociaux : le cas d’Instagram

This article examines how monolingual and multilingual portrayals are constructed displayed by users of the social media platform Instagram. It is based on a corpus 100 posts, which were labelled with hashtags #monolingualism or #monolingual. The data processed corpus-analysis software AntConc, quantified, thematically analyzed. results indicate that posts selected contained information related not only to monolingualism but also multilingualism. Corpus analysis shows substantially different value assigned identities: while multilingualism related, mostly, positive themes, such as opportunities language learning, characterized majority negative value. thematic shed light most recurrent themes appeared in multilingualism, fall into four main categories: 1) embodiment mono- multilingualism; 2) sociolinguistic issues 3) feelings towards 4) research-related topics. However, sub-themes appear within each these categories depending variables enabling us understand Instagram construct identity