He article discusses the concept of «Internet communication», examines the existing approaches to its interpretation in modern linguistics. The focus is on the linguistic features of english Internet communication, the analysis of the frequency of their use is carried out on the example of Internet resources related to social networks (Facebook, Instagram). In general, the results of the study suggest that the language of Internet communication is a young, but already quite independent and rapidly developing separate language, with its inherent lexical, syntactic, graphic and spelling features.
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