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


nostalgic review

Video reaction, trash review, nostalgic review as new evaluative speech genres of the Internet communication

The article presents the results of the linguopragmatic analysis of three evaluative speech genres of the Internet communication: video reaction, trash review and nostalgic review. The study is based on Russian and English YouTube video blogs. Since video reactions, trash reviews and nostalgic reviews originated from the speech genre “Internet review”, their communicative purpose is to evaluate the quality of some content. Nevertheless, all three genres have a number of specific characteristics.