International journal
ISSN 2311-0759 (Online)
ISSN 2311-0740 (Print)


linguistic creativity

POTENTIAL CAPACITY OF LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY IN INTERNET COMMUNICATION (BASED ON THE GENRE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS)

The article presents the analysis of some means of linguistic creativity in posts of Russian Facebook subscribers, professionally connected with the word (journalists, liguists, literary critics, psychologists, writers, etc.). Among the most popular and efficient devices there are erratives, graphic accentuation, joined-up words, ellipsis, abbreviations, puns, word creation, English inclusions, borrowed English word-forming models, lituratives.