Lexical distinctiveness of the language in the internet chat rooms

Abstract

This bachelor paper is concerned with the distinctive lexical means of the language of the internet chatrooms. It attempts to introduce and describe the communication in the chatrooms and consequently, find the reasons for using these specific means, and the methods of their word-formation. The practical part than explores the types of word-formative processes suggested in preceeding chapters to find out the most frequent and most popular types of specific words and phrases that occur in the chatroom language. Presumed rise of new units is evaluated in terms of the methods of their formation and in terms of the most frequent functions of the units in the context. This work should serve as an introduction to this fairly current and unexplored topic.