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Based on dictaphone recordings, the article investigates some peculiarities of oral scientific speech of postgraduate technical students, emphasizing its significant features (informational and pre-made content, its official and monological character, means of direct adress) and highlighting the role of pragmatics (extralinguistic factors). On the basis of the experiment, it is proved that the story about academic research might be considered as a special scientific speech genre with some traits of popular science and educational variety of it.

The article examines the peculiarities of the oral news genre with special emphasis on meaningful differences from its written form. Apart from the speech pattern, the reported features are determined by the limitations of the addressee’s perception under the conditions of the formal remote communication. It is highlighted that the journalist most often doesn’t know these socalled “pitfalls” or simply is not paying attention to them at the moment of speaking. Each of these “pitfalls” is studied in detail.

This article is devoted to the analyses of web lecture as a new genre of the Internet communication with growing popularity. Investigations of oral Internet genres are at their beginning, which implies the actuality of linguistic view especially on this genre type at a moment. The aim of the analysis is the genre characteristics of web lecture according to my Internet genre model, which includes media, pragmatic, structural and stylistic genre features.

Based on the data from Russian and English YouTube videos, the paper examines several modern varieties of the genre of the lecture (academic, public and entertaining para-scientific lectures). The analysis revealed that the main feature of the Internet lecture discourse is the speaker’s willingness to focus on their real audience and many more potential viewers and subscribers, so that they may not skip to another channel.