Społeczność Internetu wobec tradycji antycznej, czyli o mitologizmach frazeologicznych w gatunkach prymarnie internetowych (na wybranych przykładach)

Abstract

The article aims to describe how the Internet generation uses, in natural speech in a new medium, the mythology-based phraseological inventory (of Graeco-Roman provenance) for virtual communication. The analysis of research data gathered from forum and discussion group posts, based on Stanisław Bąba’s phraseological innovation typology, indicates that in everyday talk Internet users do make use of highbrow mythological phrases and have no qualms about modifying them, changing their structure and syntactic collocability. Several factors can be the source of such a practice, including active Internet users’ level of cultural and linguistic competence, their imitation of speech patterns emanating from the media, conscious reference to tradition and playfully toying with it, along with the specificity of online linguistic communication and the quality of Polish it occasions.