Internet linguistics

The article presents the analysis of the speech genre “video game stream”, understood as a complex genre formation generated by the streamer’s intention to broadcast video gameplay to the audience over the Internet as well as interact with the audience online. The relevance and novelty of the study are connected with the need to describe the genre diversity of Internet discourse, to identify constitutive features, structural, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of video game stream as a new genre of Internet discourse.

The space of social networks is improving very quickly, adapting to the needs of society. Until recently, the hashtag on social networks has been more of a tool for organizing and searching posts by topic; but today its function is expanding and deepening; new functions appear that require detailed analysis and description. Moreover, constantly evolving, the hashtag acquires the features of a self-contained text and even goes beyond social networks.