The Polish Internet Language – Selected Forms

Internet communication

Abstract

One of the most interesting phenomena observed in the Polish language today is the unques-tionable, non-rigorous ability of the language to adapt to the latest social trends like the development.This article provides an overview of the selected most network communication’ important forms oflinguistic expression of contemporary Internet Polish language in the communicative aspect. Thebasic formations and structures used by Internet users are characterized and the current state ofthe Polish language of online communication is presented, paying attention to the less and less no-ticeable disproportions between communication in the Internet space and traditional interpersonalcommunication. The excerpted forms, based on the well-known and completely new abstract unitsof the dictionary system, allowed a synthetic analysis of an interesting linguistic and communicativephenomenon, which is the marriage of both traditional and new-fangled structures of the Polish lan-guage with modern and flexible forms of digital network communication.