XIII Международная студенческая научная конференция Студенческий научный форум - 2021

Before proceeding directly to the study of the phenomenon of Internet discourse as a concept, its status on the World Wide Web and its impact on everyday speech, we consider it necessary to define the components of this term in order to determine its etymological component.

So, according to the definition of N. D. Arutyunova, a discourse is a related text that includes all extralinguistic factors — pragmatic, socio-cultural, psychological and others. [1; p. 136] This is speech, considered as a social action with a specific purpose, as a component that participates in the interaction of people. The American scientist T. Van Dyck argues that discourse is reflected as an action, "an essential component of socio-cultural interaction, the characteristic features of which are interests, goals and styles. Thus, "discourse" is understood as a speech situation, i.e. a text immersed in a situation of real communication.

The term "Internet" refers to a worldwide information network that connects both users of computer networks and users of individual computers for the exchange of information. The emergence of the Internet in the late 60s led to the emergence of not just a global information environment, but special virtual worlds. Network communities and blogs, network culture and network language serving this segment of social reality. We can safely call the Internet a symbol of the era, which played and continues to play a huge role in the development of world civilization.

Thus, on the basis of the above, we can conclude that the Internet discourse is a speech situation (text), immersed in the situation of communication within the space of the World Wide Web. However, it is worth noting that this definition is generalized and inconclusive, since linguists around the world do not come to a single designation of this phenomenon, which can be explained by the fact that this branch of linguistic science is relatively new, developing and not fully studied. Below are some definitions of this phenomenon.

Internet discourse is a text that exists in the Internet system, in which a persistent communicative attitude implicitly reflects the author's subjective and personal position, modeled taking into account psychological, linguistic and technological factors. [2: p. 117]

Computer-mediated discourse — is the communication produced when human beings interact with one another by transmitting messages via network computers.

Internet discourse — interpersonal communication on the Internet, which contains signs of all types of discourse, not belonging to any of them completely. [3; p. 156]

Internet discourse is the whole set of texts united by a common theme related to modern information technologies. [5; p. 25]

Today, in the era of information technologies and, in particular, the internet, the need to use a certain vocabulary is indisputable. every day we encounter certain phenomena and terms, the description of which is possible only through the internet vocabulary. Thus, the status of Internet discourse is as high as possible in modern society, since its necessity and, to some extent, its value cannot be ignored when analyzing the society of the 21st century.

Thus, Internet discourse finds its place not only at the level of everyday speech, but also in economics, business, information technology and engineering innovations, medicine, education and even literature.

There is a significant change in the language situation. the emancipation of speakers, especially noticeable on the internet, affects all the mechanisms of language. This develops into speech permissiveness, which has a detrimental effect on the language environment. We see an obvious decline, averaging, massing, coarsening of the speech standard on the Internet, the increased impact of which on the language environment today is not in doubt.

The Internet has a huge impact on our dictionaries and communication. When it comes to how we communicate with each other, it's clear that the Internet has made a number of major changes: email has replaced regular mail, Facebook has largely absorbed the idea of calling someone and wishing them a happy birthday, and we now find work through LinkedIn or Craigslist.

Our obsession with the Internet even affects a simple discussion in real life. Some abbreviations, neologisms and abbreviations have permeated everyday speech — if someone says something like "OMG, WTF, why my ex liked my status, I unfriend you" most people will understand what this person is talking about. Since people often communicate online through text messages, truncated phrases, and icons (emoticons), this style of communication is now mainstream.

Internet discourse is firmly embedded in the language of reality, and we will continue to live on the Internet, new expressions and words will continue to appear. just as languages evolved earlier when interacting with other languages.

We use words based on what we do and see. So, in the case of communication on the Internet, we see a monitor screen in front of us and, accordingly, we begin to communicate in a certain way. Linguist Anna Curzen coined a term for this kind of communication — electronically mediated conversation, or EMC. [7; p. 5]

"Did you re-tweet Tom's GIF link?" This proposal shows that the Internet space has already become an integral part of our life and our conversation. the verb re-tweet shows how the language adapts around new technological solutions.

Twitter introduced the idea of retweet as an action, but people unofficially included it in their dictionaries as a verb. This happens regularly when new features appear on the site — something like "rickrolling", "icing", "lurking"," trolling "these words originated from forums and spread across the web, while Facebook gave us things like" liking "and" friending. The Oxford Dictionaries authors wrote in a blog post that Facebook has introduced a number of new words and phrases to the lexicon, noting that it has given a slightly different shade to these well-known words. So, when it comes to using words in our conversation, we, without noticing it, begin to actively use the vocabulary of the Internet.

For example, the acronym lol is definitely undergoing a semantic shift, because its connotative aspect has almost completely changed. Professor Curzan wrote on her blog, " LOL is now almost never used to make something funny. lol can also be a way to confirm that a writer has received a text-based print version with a nod of the head and a smile ." [7]

In other words, now LOL is more of a way to show that you're listening than just a way to say that you're laughing at something. This is the most obvious sign of the Internet language-words move away from their original meaning and acquire a new definition.

However, the famous British linguist David Kristall also urged not to exaggerate the role of the Internet and stressed that it is useless to try to predict the future. When asked if he believes that over time, the Internet can have an even greater impact on the language, he replied: "No one should ever try to predict the future of the language. But in the short term, no. Think about other technology activities. When television appeared in the 1920s, we saw the emergence of new styles, such as sports commentary and news. But they didn't seriously change the language. They just expanded the vocabulary." [6; 152]

It is of course necessary to talk about the influence of Internet discourse on our everyday speech. At the same time, the statement of E. A. Zemskaya is true: "People did not speak worse, we just heard how they speak before only those who read and were silent. And a long-ago fallen culture of speech was revealed." [4; p. 112]

Thus, in our everyday speech, numerous words from the Internet space are less and less surprising, since for many people at least a third of their life is spent online. However, to claim that the language of the World Wide Web is able to change the literary language dramatically is too unjustified.

References:

1. Arutyunova N. D. Metaphor and discourse. M., 1990. pp. 5-32.

2. Varlamova E. V. Internet discourse as a phenomenon. // Bulletin of the Pomeranian State University. Series "Humanities and Social Sciences". 2006. Pp. 116–119.

3. galichkina e. n. specificity of computer discourse in english and russian. / / astrakhan state pedagogical university. 2001. 212 p.

4. Zemskaya E. A. Modern Russian language. // flint: nauka. m., 2001. 324 p.

5. karasik v. i. language circle: personality, concepts, discourse. / / change. Volgograd., 2002. 477 p.

6. Crystal David. Language and The Internet. //Cambridge University Press. 2001. 256 p.

7. Curzen Anna. How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction. // Pearson/Longman. New York. 2012.

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