The Verbal-semantic Level of the Foreign Student Language Identity (Based on Internet Discourse)

This paper introduces characteristic features of the language identity of a foreign high school student as exemplified in the Internet discourse of National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University. The verbal-semantic language level has been investigated. The material for the study is based on foreign students’ “live communication” texts from social networks. The analysis of lexical, grammatical, and syntactic levels of the Russian language in the student Internet discourse has shown the particularities of the lexical-semantic content of the collective high school bilingual student language identity and features of the student sociolect.