LEXIS CHARACTERISTICS IN JAPANESE INTERNET DISCOURSE

The paper is about the lexic characteristics in Internet discourse based on the analysis of 250 messages in japanese language of popular singers and actresses and their followers from Twitter. In the messages of the social network Twitter are manifested signs of oral and written speech. The language of virtual space, which in- cludes specific terms, computer slang, borrowing, affects various aspects of human speech. There are general characteristics of Japanese oral speech in social networks: cliché phrases, onomatopoeia, idioms, slang words; the use of personal pronouns «I»; particles of oral speech