International journal

Speech Genres

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

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Kolokoltseva T. N. Internet comments as a network genre: General characteristics, diological potency, classification problems. Speech Genres, 2024, vol. 19, iss. 2 (42), pp. 164-173. DOI: 10.18500/2311-0740-2024-19-2-42-164-173, EDN: ISDSFK

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Russian
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Internet genres
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Article
UDC: 
81’42:004.738.5
DOI: 
10.18500/2311-0740-2024-19-2-42-164-173
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ISDSFK

Internet comments as a network genre: General characteristics, diological potency, classification problems

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Kolokoltseva Tatiana Nikolaevna, Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University
Abstract: 

The article deals with current problems of modern communicative linguistics and network genre studies. The author presents general characteristics of such a relatively new network genre as Internet commentary. The research emphasizes dialogical orientation of this genre, which meets the urgent need of Internet users for feedback and represents a media embodiment of the addressee factor that is in demand and meets the spirit of the times. Internet commentary is characterized as a reactive (responsive) Internet genre, the texts of which are thematically, structurally, semantically and pragmatically closely related to the original (root)  message (post) and form a kind of dialogic unity with it. The author offers a multi-level classification of Internet comments, taking into account the following characteristics: 1) attribution to the Internet resource; 2) discursive affiliation; 3) the nature of the stimulus that caused the reaction (text or polycode stimulus, video content with verbal accompaniment, video content without verbal accompaniment, etc.); 4) place in the information and commentary block; 5) structural characteristics (linear length; mono-code / poly-code); 6) content and thematic features; 7) the degree of dependence on the original (root) message. 

Key words: 
Internet communication
network genres
dialogicity
dialogic genres
Internet commentary
information and commentary block
classification of Internet commentaries
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Received: 
04.04.2023
Accepted: 
20.06.2023
Published: 
31.05.2024