LINGUOCREATIVE FEATURES OF YOUTH INTERNET SLANG

The article examines the linguocreative features of youth Internet slang as a dynamic phenomenon of modern digital communication. Special attention is paid to the word-formation, semantic, graphic, and pragmatic mechanisms involved in the creation of slang units functioning in social networks, messengers, comments, memes, and informal online dialogues. The research material consists of a sample of 120 units of youth Internet slang recorded in open digital communication among Russian-speaking young people. As a result of the analysis, productive models of linguistic creativity were identified: English-language borrowing and adaptation, affixal derivation, semantic reinterpretation, abbreviation, contamination, graphic play, memetization, and ironic re-evaluation. The conclusion is made that Internet slang functions not only as a means of speech economy but also as a form of linguistic self-expression, group identification, and emotional-evaluative influence.

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