LEXICAL FEATURES OF COMMUNICATION ON THE INTERNET: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FRENCH AND RUSSIAN CHATS
Communication in social networks is characterized by creative and experimental approaches to language. Based on the analysis of French and Russian chats, the author describes the vocabulary used in Internet correspondence by various types of participants. The linguistic research carried out goes beyond the description characteristic of one language, since a comparative characteristic of French and Russian is given. The author tries to determine whether French and Russian work the same way in chat rooms and whether the chat language is a globalizing phenomenon with characteristic linguistic features. The article describes both recurring and divergent lexical phenomena of Russian- and French-speaking network communication. Virtual dialogue (in «chat» mode) as an electronic means of communication raises the question of the ratio of oral and written speech. Combining the means of written and oral communication allows you to create a new communicative space and expand the speech capabilities of participants in the network discourse. Linguistic analysis has shown that the lexical fund of network chats (vocabulary of spoken language (slang words, vulgar language, interjections) and words formed using various linguistic strategies, such as truncation and borrowing) is a universal means of communication for all communicants of the Internet space.