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

media text

Correlation of the private and public in the genre of the reader comment

The article deals with the analysis of reader comments in American media discourse to identify the signs of privacy and publicity in this genre. The relevance of the study of reader comments is due to their significant role in the formation of the public sphere.

Text transformation under the influence of the genre system of communicative internet space social media services (based on english-language political sites)

The article addresses the problems of computer-mediated communication and convergent characteristics of Internet contributing to genres 2.0 system formation and development, which has essentially transformed the basic notion of the text. The notion of political media text is specified within new media context, main characteristics of media texts are defined and an attemp of media texts typology building as well as linguistic analysis on their lexical, morphological and syntactical levels is made.