From traditional media to the Internet

Abstract

This article is an attempt to describe the linguistic aspects of communication among citizens 50+ active on Facebook (their biolect). These are people from generations who were originally socialized to traditional media and are just undergoing the process of adapting to new forms of communication. The research was conducted on the basis of 150 statements collected on Facebook in the period from December 2020 to the end of February 2021. During the analysis, four of seven forms characteristic for netspeak were observed, as well as the transfer of forms characteristic for traditional media to social media and appearance of atypical expression’s forms (e.g. a quantitative advantage of polite phrases over vulgarisms), which counterbalance the linguistic tendencies in the new media.