Russian Diminutives on the Social Network Instagram
- Authors: Grigoryan A.A.1, Strelchuk E.N.2
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Affiliations:
- South Federal University
- Peoples’ Friendship Univesity of Russia (RUDN University)
- Issue: Vol 12, No 4 (2021)
- Pages: 981-995
- Section: DISCURSIVE STUDIES
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2313-2299/article/view/323330
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2021-12-4-981-995
- ID: 323330
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Abstract
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of communication on the Russian-speaking segment of the social net Instagram. The aim of the article makes the analysis of diminutives - the words with diminutive-hypocoristic suffixes. In course of the study, over 250 users’ pages of Instagram were analyzed, and the most high-frequency lexemes were chosen. The derivational analysis was carried out to sort out the groups of relevant suffixes, and such a phenomenon as the synonymy was revealed. As is proved, despite different formal expression, all suffixes of diminutives bear diminutive-hypocoristic (or just hypocoristic) meaning which helps express subjective positive evaluation in respect to the environment, and demonstrate emotions (also positive) in course of communication. As is marked, the use of diminutives on the social net is not an occasional occurrence, it’s one of the significant exponents of the world view of the Russian-speaking people. The demand of language bearers for the diminutives witnesses of their high linguistic potential allowing the forms to create aesthetical communication over the Internet virtual space.
About the authors
Armine A. Grigoryan
South Federal University
Author for correspondence.
Email: armine_1979@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7674-3092
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian for Foreign Students
105/42 Bolshaya Sadovaya str., Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation, 344006Elena N. Strelchuk
Peoples’ Friendship Univesity of Russia (RUDN University)
Email: ctrelcuk-en@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2161-3722
Doctor of Pedagogy, Associate Professor of the Department of the Russian Language and Methods of Teaching, Philological Faculty
6, Miklukho-Maklaya str., Moscow, Russian Federation, 117198References
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