ENGLISH REFLEXIVE PRONOUN VARIATIONS ON THE INTERNET GENRE "SOCIAL MEDIA"

Abstract

The paper aims to present a thorough study of English reflexive pronoun invariants in the Internet genre "Social media". Today the development of telecommunication has drastically reshaped our ideas of speech genres. The advent of digital technologies has made social media become an integral and unique platform of everyday communication. Millions of speakers all over the world are actively engaged in virtual communication. The immediacy and freedom of expression on different platforms of social media make a room for users to create new grammatical and lexical deviations of reflexive pronouns which over the time have led the English language to changes.