The article in Litikon (2024, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 65-75) discusses the current media environment that stimulates and supports various innovations in terms of ways of using language (as well as other sign resources that coexist with it and thus create a characteristic multimodality), the overall construction of the text and the general characteristics of the communication process. Until now established hierarchies and oppositions, such as public – private, official (institutional) – everyday life and individuality, professionalism – interest, expertise – non-expertise are being disrupted. The position of authors and recipients changes, the distance between them weakens and mutual contact is emphasized. In the linguistic component of the texts, the features of spontaneity and preparedness, talkativeness and handwriting, formality and informality, literacy and non-literacy are connected. The article deals with the issue of linguistic (mainly semantic, lexical and syntactic) and stylistic heterogeneity on the basis of contemporary Slovak internet communication with an emphasis on social networks.
The article was funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia under the project No. 09I03-03-V04-00670 Inverted Morality: Reversed Semantics in Old Church Slavonic Moral Words (OXYMORAL).