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The article examines the politeness of medical workers – how it is reflected in the genre of reviews on the consumption of medical services published on the Internet. Methodologically, the work fits into the traditions of discourse studies, semantic and stylistic studies. Theoretically, the article is based on the ideas of media linguistics, discourse studies, genre studies, semantic syntax and stylistics.

This article is devoted to the secondary speech genre “reminder”, which is widely used in contemporary mass literature. This genre reflects the author’s orientation on the limited store of knowledge of a potential reader. In a dialogue with the reader, the authors of mass literature try to create a feeling of intellectual comfort. The status of a cultured person is correlated with the ability, at least superficially, to navigate the world of classic literature.