On the specific features of communicative dynamics of modern English language (based on the example of text messages)

The article studies the specificity of short text message in English language communicative environment. Text message communication erases borders between a written message and oral communication. This form of communication, which is based on written language principles, has multiple characteristics based on oral speech. The processes of the development of written mobile communication culture are closely connected with «mediality», that is the search of the language which would help the linguistic personality most successfully express itself in the new environment, taking part in for formation and broadcasting of corresponding cultural codes. The communicative form of such messages is characterized by compression, conciseness and laconicism. The article analyzes approaches to compression which are used in text message communication, such as graphic compression, phonetic analogization, one-letter shortenings.