Linguistic Parameters Evolution in Social Network VK.com

Student: Piskunova Ekaterina

Educational Programme: Fundamental and Computational Linguistics (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2017

Internet - communication is a rapidly developing speech formation, characterized by its diversity. Nowadays, the Internet plays the role of a web-corpus, which is in demand in many linguistic studies. In this work, I analyze the main trends of language change over the last 7 on the material of the public groups from the social network "VKontakte". This research examines the following linguistic parameters of communication: the part of speech distribution, word length, vocabulary, number of English words, number of abbreviation, number of words in uppercase, emoticons and emoji, mistakes. This research shows that language is unstable and is transformed at all language levels. Although the Internet communication is made by writing, there are some communication parameters that show that the Internet-language is close to the oral speech.

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