review

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.

The article presents the analysis of popular science lectures by literary critic Andrey Nemzer. The research is based on the radio series “Russian Prose of the Third Millennium”, in which Nemzer gave lectures on remarkable prose writers of the 1990s: N. Gorlanova, M. Vishnevetskaya, A. Slapovsky and A. Dmitriev. The author of the article compares Andrey Nemzer’s public speeches with thematically similar reviews published in “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, “Segodnya” and “Vremya MN”.