Keyword: «meta-linguistic and meta-communicative reflection»

The word taboo is considered as one of the nominative units that make up the field of communicative vocabulary of the Russian language. In the context of the meta-language and meta-communicative organization of the virtual polylogue, the features of the lexical collocation of the word taboo in the Russian speech of Belarusian Internet communities’s participants (according to the Internet forums «Pressball» and «Grodno Forum») are regarded. The main semantic and pragmatic components in the meaning of the word taboo, which are actualized by the context of the utterances and the communicative situation, are emphasized.