Neoderivatives in Internet communication (based on the "Kniga zhivotnykh" / English "Book of Animals" blog)

The article examines neoderivatives recorded in the texts of the blog "Kniga zhivotnykh" / English "Book of Animals" published primarily in 2022–2024. Analysing texts of Internet publication is a topical subject of the latest linguistic research. The Internet in the modern world is becoming one of the most important communication channels. Among other things, the Internet determines the renewal of the national language. Despite the fairly large number of studies focused on the Internet language and the specific features of Internet communication, many topics require further investigation. This is due to the very nature of the research object: the Internet is constantly being enriched with new linguistic material. In this regard, bloggers’ word-formation innovations introduced into texts for various purposes are of particular interest. This study is limited to the materials of one popular science blog about zoological topics. The study aims to analyse the methods of innovative word-formation as well as to identify the most productive word-formation affixes and patterns and to determine the reasons motivating authors to create words. The article consistently analyses new formations created by different methods, identifies productive affixes, and thematically classifies the new formations. As the materials show, bloggers employ both usual (suffixation, prefixation) and unusual (linguistic contamination, graphoderivation) methods. Author’s word formation in Internet communication follows the general linguistic trends. In particular, productivity is demonstrated by the same word formation affixes and methods that are in demand in other forms of speech communication. The most frequent methods of creating neoderivatives are composition and suffixation. Neoderivatives can perform different functions such as nominative, expressive, evaluative. Author’s neoderivatives in the analysed popular science blog attract readers’ attention, make the presented materials more popular, express the author’s position.