Творба речи у интернетскоj преписци - безгранична креативност или неограничена моЋ ограниченог ума?
Word formation in Internet correspondence - limitless creativity or unlimited power of a limited mind?

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the study is word formation in Internet correspondence between Serbian native speakers. The present paper consists of five parts. The first part of the paper presents the general features of electronic discourse and the characteristics related to Internet correspondence in the Serbian language. The second part is dedicated to a corpus, which is made up of examples excerpted from „Krstarica”, an internet portal with the largest internet community in Serbia. The third part gives an overview of the existence of different word formation models. The examples are analysed and classified by different word formation processes in the fourth part of the paper. The conclusions are presented in the fifth part of paper. The diagram at the end of present study shows the presence of the recorded word formation models in analysed corpus. The aim of this paper is to examine the tendencies in the use of shortened and new words in the Serbian language on the Internet.

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