Abstract: This paper is a part of an implemented scientific research project at St. Kliment Ohridski Faculty of Pedagogy – Skopje during 2021 where the subject of research were the ways in which communication through social media influences the Macedonian standard language and takes part in the development of a new linguistic identity, especially with the young population. Thereby, the informal communication taking place on the Facebook network as the most popular one was analyzed, with the analysis of several different linguistic levels in the collected corpus of Macedonian-language expressions from the social network Facebook being made.
Within this paper, we will consider in more detail the lexical analysis of the corpus of expressions. Actually, when it comes to lexicon, the analysis showed strong influence of dialects and foreign languages, e.g. significant presemce of dialect words, Serbian loanwords, Anglicisms, Turkisms and conversational vocabulary in informal (free) written communication most often used by young people.
Starting from the view that the users of social networks, especially young people, use consciously or unconsciously a significantly simplified and largely modified variance of Macedonian, though adequate conclusions and certain specific proposals, towards preservation of the linguistic identity of native speakers.
Keywords: communication, Macedonian language, social networks, Facebook
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Authos Info:
Assoc. Prof. Jasminka Jovanovska, PhD
Faculty of Pedagogy “St. Kliment Ohridski”
University “St. Cyril and Methodius”
Skopje, North Macedonia
е-mail: jasmina.armenska@gmail.com
Prof. Elizabeta Bandilovska, PhD
Faculty of Pedagogy “St. Kliment Ohridski”
University “St. Cyril and Methodius”
Skopje, North Macedonia
е-mail: beti.bandilovska@gmail.com
Prof. Ljuljzim Ademi, PhD
Faculty of Pedagogy “St. Kliment Ohridski”
University “St. Cyril and Methodius”
Skopje, North Macedonia
е-mail: ademilulzim@yahoo.com
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