FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF MEMES IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDYING
The article analyzes German-language Internet memes as a kind of polycode texts in the process of learning a foreign language, and also considers the most frequent aspects, such as linguistic-cultural and event-based ones. As an important and distinctive part of the Internet culture, this phenomenon is especially relevant for researchers when communication from its real and virtual spheres is closely intertwined and covers almost all spheres of modern human activity.