Features of computer-mediated communication and the language of text messages (based on the material of the English language)

Avanesyan Narine K., Golik Natalya A., Sokolovskaya Natalya A.

The article deals with the study of patterns of production and reception of text messages sent through the electronic environment in the official and informal contexts of interpersonal communication. This article analyzes and systematizes language mechanisms, electronic tools and information-exchange systems, the structures of communicative interaction used by speech producers in computer-mediated communication in synchronous and asynchronous mode, establishes language variables necessary for learning a new media language, and reveals its characteristic linguistic traits derived from technolinguistic and mechanical factors. The authors show that due to the introduction of technology there is an obvious change in the culture of communication behavior and the language of communication in virtual environments and come to the conclusion that new methods of text-generation and a new kind of discourse verbalization have emerged.

Keywords:English, discourse, interpersonal communication, computer-mediated communication, online communication, Netspeak, technolinguistic factors, text messages.