International journal
ISSN 2311-0759 (Online)
ISSN 2311-0740 (Print)


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LEXICAL MARKERS OF THE ONLINE COMMUNICATION GENRES

The article discusses methods of defining lexical and stylistic markers of the two genres of online communication, namely, blogs and group chats in social networks. Attention is paid to the strong and week points of using corpus methods for finding lexical units which can be classified as genre markers of online monologues and dialogues. The research is based on the data obtained from snapshot corpora of blogs and group chats as well as from the General Internet Corpus of the Russian Language.