LINGUISTIC AND DIGITAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN INFOMATION ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

The article focuses on the interaction of the linguistic and digital points of modern information environment. The shift of the accents to the direction of linguistics or digital features can open up new perspectives for the study of language as a sign system transmitting information through time and space by means of "real" and "virtual" methods. Besides it allows revealing and distinguishing features of texts in virtual digital environment which become an integral part of information industry; the way of creating the texts in the Internet and their opposition to texts of mass information on the basis of their relationship between the creator and the receiver that allows their differentiation into a special kind of texts. Computational and corpus linguistics are referred as closely linking elements to linguistics and computing. The authors examine the impact of digital media on the language teaching process.

Keywords

• linguistics
• computing
• text
• digital text
• digital environment
• лингвистика
• информатика
• текст
• контент-текст
• цифровое пространство