К вопросу о структуре семантического поля ИНТЕРНЕТ

About the structure of the semantic field INTERNET

The article is focused on investigation of the structure of the field INTERNET. In recent years there has been a rapid development of Internet linguistics - domain of which arte changes that occur in the language under the influence of the Internet and other form of electronic communication. Computer as a mean of communication influences the language, and the Internet language is different from written and spoken forms. The language accustoms to the needs of the users and their aims, which causes neological processes. In the Internet the amount of material that can be studied grows with the enlargement of number of the users of the Web. The number of text materials and information in the Internet becomes larger, and it makes it difficult to describe the language of the Internet. The structure of the lexico-semantic field INTERNET is influenced by the fact that this is a sphere that reflects the needs of the speakers and reacts to the changes in the extralinguistic reality. This affects which parts of speech are in the field, word-formation processes, the meaning of the lexemes. Nouns play important role in the structure of the field. They are divided into eight groups according to their meaning. The field consists of groups that denote speakers and their activity, “technical” realia, “text” realia, platforms and their names. This field constantly grows due to loanwords, and one of the problems is loanword adaptation. There exist different ways in which loanwords can be written: using Cyrillic or Latin alphabet, and after some time one variant can prevail. Words written in Cyrillic script can be started with capital letters or with minuscule, and the most frequent variant is reflected in dictionaries. Despite of the fact that the field grows very fastly, lexemes that are included into it, aren’t fully represented in the dictionaries of Russian language. Some of important realia aren’t defined correctly, because with time lexemes can have multiple meanings. Lexemes in semantic field are stylistically diverse: there are words that belong to occupational language, jargon and stylistically neutral words. In this field there can be marked several problems: loanword adaptation, lexicographical description of lexemes and definition of stylistic boundaries. Internet is the sphere where people from different social groups communicate, and that is reflected in the language they use.