Language in the Internet communication: the regular patterns and national cultural peculiarities (based on the english and russian sources)

The article focuses on the regular patterns and national cultural peculiarities of the Internet communication in English and Russian languages determined both by the internal linguistic laws and by extralinguistic factors. The adaptation of language phenomena to the Internet communication is shown to be governed by the principle of economy of speech and mental efforts of communicators. Special emphasis is paid to the social and cultural specificity exhibited in the implementation of the given principle.

the Internet, Internet communication, Internet neologisms, principles of paradigmatic and syntagmatic economy