Internet-genre

The article aims at the substantiation, definition and genre characteristics of a new sphere of Internet communication – learning online discourse, which is becoming increasingly important in modern educational practice due to various social processes and technological development of society, but has not yet become the subject of linguistic and genre analysis. The research is based on observation and comparison of various genres emerging in online learning and illustrated by the online discourse on studying foreign languages.

The study is devoted to the concept of genre 2.0 development, the identification of problem areas of modern virtual genre studies and relevant approaches to its analysis. The article analyzes communicative, morphological, lexical, syntactic and paralinguistic features of communication in the messenger as a new genre 2.0 of Internet-communication.