MODERN ENGLISH ABBREVIATIONS AS A COMPONENT OF YOUTH INTERNET SLANG

Abstract

This study is subordinated to the realization of the following goal: to consider the most characteristic abbreviations for modern English as youth Internet slang important component. In turn, achieving it involves solving three tasks. The first is to reveal the essence of the term «abbreviation» and determine its place in modern English and other languages. The second task is to identify the role that abbreviations play today in the implementation of online communication, primarily by the youth environment representatives. Further, the article describes the experiment conducted by the authors with the students of the Dagestan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation progress and results, it turns out what role English abbreviations play in their communications implementation on the Internet. In the course of solving the above tasks, the authors widely used the following methods: analysis of specialized literature, reflection on their own professional and pedagogical experience, and a sociological survey.