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LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF THE INTERNET COMMUNICATION: GENRES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2016. Issue 3 (168). P. 48-52

This article reviews the results of relevant studies conducted in the latest research works of Russian linguistics and devoted to the linguistic specificity of Internet communication as a subject of Internet linguistics. The article also touches upon various actual approaches to the general definition of the concept of Internet communication and summarizes the results of a number of works related to the study of specific linguistic features of some certain genres of the Internet communication. The author pays special attention to the important stylistic characteristics and structure of popular within Internet users and researchers genres including “forum”, “blog” and “chat”.

Keywords: Internet linguistics, Internet communication, genres, phatic communication, communicative hedonism