Means of language economy in SMS communication of the German linguocultural community

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Doklady Bashkirskogo Universiteta. 2020. Volume 5. No. 5. pp. 370-377.

Authors

Gazizov R. A.*
Bashkir State University
32 Zaki Validi Street, 450076 Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia

Abstract

The article considers the main features of language economy used by representatives of the German linguocultural community in communicative interaction by means of SMS. The phonemic level is represented by the reduction of vowels at the end of a word, the diphthong ei in the indefinite article, and the change in the negation nicht. At the morphemic level, there are cases of truncation of affixes and inflections. The lexical level is characterized by the presence of compressive word formation. The use of elliptical sentences is a syntactic method of language economy.

Keywords

  • language economy
  • SMS communication
  • German linguoculture
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