Internet genre

We analyze the influence of new technologies of communicative interaction on the transformation of the speech genre of consumer reviews on the Internet. The research is based on reviews of doctors and medical services taken from the websites of specialized online publications and forums. The author compares modern Internet-reviews of the consumer with the genre-prototype – reviews in the Book of Complaints and Suggestions.

This article is devoted to the analyses of web lecture as a new genre of the Internet communication with growing popularity. Investigations of oral Internet genres are at their beginning, which implies the actuality of linguistic view especially on this genre type at a moment. The aim of the analysis is the genre characteristics of web lecture according to my Internet genre model, which includes media, pragmatic, structural and stylistic genre features.