Functioning of Russian Internet Slang: a Case Study
The frequency of slangisms depends mainly on the way they are formed: the average ipm is higher for abbreviations and graphoderivates and lower for anglicisms and phonoderivates; suffixal slangisms are on average the least frequent. Analysis of the dynamics of the use of slangisms from 2004 to 2014 made it possible to establish that the largest number of slangisms was used in 2005-2007, 2009, 2012 and 2014. Therefore, the dynamics of the development of Internet slang shows some conditionality of Internet subcultures that gave rise to certain lexical units.