Barbarisms in the language of the Internet

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of barbarisms used in Internet blogs, websites, forums, etc. The authors determine functional areas of the use and factors affecting the spread of barbarisms as well as mechanisms of barbarisms’ adaptation in speech. The article reveals the features of changes in a number of foreign-language words at the phonetic-graphic, semantic and derivational levels.

Keywords

• nternet language
• foreign language word
• barbarism
• adaptation of foreign language vocabulary
• jargon
• determinologisation
• change of semantic structure of the word