SHORTENINGS WITH EVIDENTIAL SEMANTICS IN TEXTS OF INFORMAL INTERNET DISCOURSE: TYPOLOGY, STRUCTURE, AND PRAGMATICS

SHORTENINGS WITH EVIDENTIAL SEMANTICS IN TEXTS OF INFOR¬MAL INTERNET DISCOURSE: TYPOLOGY, STRUCTURE, AND PRAGMAT¬ICS The article focuses on the semantic and structural properties of English Internet shortenings with evidential semantics, examines their pragmatic functions, and proposes their classification. The selection of linguistic units, for which the continuous sampling method was used, is based on the broad definition of evidential semantics (as an indicator of an epistemic relation between a speaker and an event).