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Metalanguage Network Reflection

Author(s): Iryna Volovenko, Irina Grigorenko
Subject(s): Applied Linguistics, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
Keywords: metalanguage reflexion; implicit; explicit; network communication; text

Summary/Abstract: Internet is an information and communication environment. The Internet replaces the reference offices of airports, train stations, shops, pharmacies. The Internet replaces libraries by placing on the Internet the main encyclopedias, dictionaries, various directories, branch databases and much more. TV channels and newspapers create their own websites, because the number of online audiences is constantly increasing. The network version of the publication due to advertising banners on the site can be more profitable and promising than its paper or television analogue-source. Social networks and blogs are developing and gaining popularity. They differ from traditional broadcast media not only in their interactivity, but the lexical filling and syntactic processing of the information offered. In addition, one of the special features of network communication is its metalanguage.Purpose is to characterize explicit and implicit manifestations of metalanguage reflexion of network vocabulary. The task: to describe the explicit symbols that are typical for network communication; language phenomena of implication in the network vocabulary.Methods. Descriptive and comparative.Results. The peculiarity of the network vocabulary is undeniable, since such lexicon is inherent in explicit and implicit meta-linguistic reflection. Language peculiarity of network communication covers all levels of language – phonetic, lexical, morphological and syntactic. In addition, graphics and spelling of the network language deserve attention. Such uniqueness is dictated by the activation of metalanguage reflexion.

  • Issue Year: 1/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 57-70
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Ukrainian