A Linguistic Analysis of Ficwriters' Slang in the Russian Internet Segment (with Text Corpus Processing via PERL)

Student: Bujlova Nadezhda

Faculty: Faculty of Media Communications

Educational Programme: Bachelor

Year of Graduation: 2014

Written communication, which previously did not involve immediate feedback between the speaker and the addressee, now, in the era of the Internet, has become interactive and has begun to develop under the new laws. In recent years, more attention is paid to specific areas of language, such as slang or jargon. This is due to the fact that the Russian internet-slang is the formation of the so-called common slang, which includes the words used by various subcultures, professional words, dialect words, which are commonly used. However, it should be understood that this process continues, and many words still need explanation to the public. This "translation" is complicated by the fact that in Russia there are many subcultures, each uses its own slang and creates neologisms.Fan fiction, or fanfiction (often abbreviated as fan fic, fanfic, or simply fic), is a broadly defined fan labor term for stories about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator. This trend seems to be promising, as it has several possible paths of development. Firstly, this study can be used by linguists to build the dynamics of the modern Russian language on the Internet. Secondly, thesauri, obtained after processing, can be part of a marketing promotion project of fandom's products. To allow users to buy your product you need to speak with them in the same language. So, an array of terms has been studied. An array of terms describing the fandom life style based on the dictionary, consisting of units derived by parsing Ficbook.ru website is the object of study.Parsing or syntactic analysis is the process of analysing a string of symbols, either in natural language or in computer languages, according to the rules of a formal grammar. The term parsing comes from Latin pars (orationis), meaning part (of speech). Correlation of ficwriters’ slang with canon principles of slang of other fans is the subject of research. The hypothesis of the study is that slang of ficwriters is not confined to a particular canon, it includes multiple neologisms created by fans and interacts with other slang being enriched as a result.Analysis tools is the most important part of the study. Parser was used for data processing written in Perl programming language. After machining data were cross-checked manually.

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