THE SPECIFICITY OF THE INTERNET SLANG IMPLEMENTATION IN THE PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION IN CHAT ROOMS (original) (raw)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the Internet slang as a key aspect of interaction in chat rooms. The author highlights the specificity of slang in the process of communication in chat rooms. The article is based on the chats of modern social networks. The work examines the definite units of the Internet slang, such as: acronyms, abbreviations, shortened words and jargon. The author puts a stress on the actuality of a work due to the speed development of chatspeak communication , which is endless source of slang, and its narrow exploring. The article's goals are to set the main principles of the Internet slang forming and to describe its key features which will serve as a basic for future works. It highlights the specificity of the Internet slang usage and underlines the importance of its analysis due to the growing interest in the lexical, grammatical, phonetical, seman-tical and other aspects of the Internet communication whether it is interaction between the youth or the adults. The author sets main principles of slang forming and examines this phenomenon using the examples from two languages-English and Ukrainian. Moreover, the article presents issues which are turned to the comparison of the features of the Internet slang forming.