Studying the Features of Communication in the Student Environment via SMS Messages
The purpose of the article is to review the process of writing students of technical universities through SMS messages. The study collected responses from students from 1st to 4th years of Stupino Branch of Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University), allowing to analyze the language situation regarding the use of symbols and words in written communication among young people. An anonymous survey of 100 students was conducted, each of whom expressed his opinion on the balanced use of characters and words in communication. In the process, a hypothesis was put forward according to which the opportunity is created for the degradation of the word through the dominance of characters used to save speech resources. The research methods are cognition, comparison, and description, a method of dictionary definitions, analysis, systematization, generalization, and questioning. The study showed that young people (47 %) consider the abundance of signs in written speech to be an element that affects the culture of the younger generation, which sees in symbols the possibility of saving speech resources for the speed of information transfer in a written act of communication.