THE INTERNET AND ITS RESOURCES IN POLISH LINGUISTIC RESEARCH: OVERVIEW

The Internet's mediality, geography, and communicative specificity make it a socially interesting domain of study. Linguistics as a humanistic discipline may contribute significantly to the research on the new media and their impact on contemporary society and it has the necessary tools for the task. The article discusses the following areas of linguistic research on the Internet: secondary orality or oralisation of writing, understood as 'transformation of verbal expressions by electronic means' (a secondarily oral written text may be sent and received simultaneously in real time); tendency to abbreviation, evident in acronyms; emoticons as a fashionable means of conveying information about the attitude of senders of messages; netiquette, i.e. the emergence of new conventions of politeness observed by chat users; the role of the Internet in language counselling and guidance; creating a new type of dictionary (e-dictionary) as a task for lexicographers and metalexicographers; hypertext as a representation of a net text 'sensu stricto'; genres