LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of virtual communication, which combines the features of business communication. In the age of computer technology, when any human activity is inextricably linked with computers, language cannot develop in isolation without adapting to the conditions of modern life. So, with the advent of a new, virtual, platform for communication, new genres appear, of which the genre of instant messages occupies a special place in view of its popularity. Also, this article describes the linguistic features of Internet communication, characterizes the genre of instant messages as one of the discourse-forming genres. Based on the analysis, the position is proved that, despite the written form and the lack of sound design, communication via instant messages should still be correlated with oral speech. Discourse is understood as a special use of language to express a special mentality, as well as a special ideology. This causes activation of some language parameters and, ultimately, requires special grammar and special vocabulary rules. All this language material can also be called a discourse. An example of a discourse can be the sum of statements of a character in a work of art, which in this case acts as a model of a real linguistic personality.