Лексичні та синтактико-стилістичні зміни в сучасній англійській мові: вплив комп’ютерних технологій

2.2. Hacker Style as

2.2.1. Hacker Speech Style………………………………...

2.2.2. Hacker Writing Style……………………………………….

2.2.3. International Style……………………..…………………….

2.2.6. Hacker Humour

2.3. Pronunciation Features of Hacker Jargon

Conclusions……………………………………………………………….55

Bibliography…………………………………………………………….. 56

List of Lexicographical Sourses

List of Internet Sites

Glossary of Terms……………………………………………………….55

Appendix………………………………………………………………….57

INTRODUCTION

This paper deals with computerization as a source of lexical, syntactic-stylistic, and phonetic changes in Modern English language. It focuses on hacker’s jargon having its construction, stylistic peculiarities, and phonetic features as the target.

The scientific novelty of the paper lies in the attempt to systemize lexical, syntactic-stylistic, and phonetic changes, which are introduced by hacker culture to Modern English; to find out and describe particular features of hacker jargon; to analyse the correlation between basic hacker subcultures. A few hackers tried to analyze the language they use; the problem of hacker’s jargon is still a moot point.

The theoretical value of the research lies in the fact that it is one of the first attempts to investigate the changes introduced to Modern English with the appearance of computers. We hope that the obtained data will make a contribution to the linguistic studies, especially to the pragmatic aspects of linguistics.

The practical value of the work is in the opportunity to apply the data to the process of teaching English at university: to teach conversational English at practical English classes, at lectures on English Lexicology or Stylistics.

The objective of the paper is to reveal and describe a set of lexicological, stylistic, and phonetic features of hacker jargon.

In accordance with the objective the following tasks are set:

1)to define the status of hacker jargon as a linguistic and sociocultural phenomenon;

2)to single out and analyze the most significant ways of forming hacker jargon;

3)to analyze the style hackers use in written and oral speech;

4)to provide pronunciation keys to the jargon.

The investigation was carried out on the material of Internet. 25 sites in total introducing the peculiarities of hacker jargon were analyzed through the use of diachronic, synchronic, descriptive approaches, through some elements of distributional, substitution, and oppositional methods of linguistic analysis and with some elements of conceptual, linguostylistic, and sociocultural analyses included.