LINGUAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BLOG COMMENTARIES (A STUDY OF THE CONTENT OF «УКРАЇНСЬКА ПРАВДА» (‘UKRAINIAN TRUTH’) WEBSITE)
Journal Title: Одеський лінгвістичний вісник - Year 2018, Vol 11, Issue
Abstract
The paper focuses on the lingual features of blogs, viewed as a new form of communication that emerged due to the Internet and is subdivided into two genre groups of texts: a post (a prepared and edited message of its author) and commentaries (spontaneous short messages, posted by the post readers, that reflect the oral speech). The research is based on the commentaries of “Ukrainian Truth” («Українськa правдa») blogs, whose lexico-grammatical content is termed as “Ukrainian-Russian Macaroni”, i.e. a mixture of lexical components of both Russian and Ukrainian. It is found out that in the majority of cases Ukrainian texts have transliterated components of the Russian language which occur with the purpose of parodying or denoting the ideas implemented by propaganda. At the same time, it is not typical of Ukrainian language units to squeeze into Russian texts. Neologisms and adhoc formations, being created without any restrictions as to the form and content, are natural for blog commentaries. Along with neologisms represented by single lexemes blog commentaries are characterised by newly-coined phraseological units, idioms and paraphrasing. There are cases when commentators insert non-lingual graphical means into words to focus the readers’ attention on different connotative meanings. By using capital letters only, the author seeks to highlight a certain component of the text, thus emphasizing it. Some commentaries contain, along with the letters, graphical mathematical symbols. Intertextuality of the analyzed commentaries is achieved by using quotations and allusions. In order to fulfil the corresponding intentions, the commentators may deliberately distort the words as well as there may be some errors and deviations from the generally accepted rules of written speech. The study of lingual specificity of Internet communication presents a significant scientific perspective, since the field of network communication shows its constant growth, attracting more and more users.
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Tetyana Andreyeva
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