Жанровая классификация англоязычного электронного гипертекста как объекта лингвосемиотического исследования

Abstract

The study aims to present the most complete genre classification of the English-language electronic hypertext, which is considered in the work as an object of linguosemiotic research. The paper examines the background of the issue, analyses publications related to the topic and presents the theoretical basis of the study. The analysis of the theoretical basis allowed the authors to conclude that the creation of a genre classification of electronic texts and communication on the Internet based on uniform criteria is difficult and, thus, the work elaborated the genre stratification criteria specifically for the English-language electronic hypertext: a written version of the electronic hypertext, structural complexity, hypertextuality, creolised and multimedia nature, communicative purpose, thematic attribution, linguostylistic features. The criteria developed by the authors are based on the previously proposed ones, but they relate exclusively to electronic hypertexts and not to computer-mediated communication and are characterised by complexity. The scientific novelty of the study lies in analysing the existing genres of the English-language electronic hypertext and constructing their detailed classification, since this issue has not yet been resolved in modern linguistics. As a result, the authors developed a genre classification of the English-language electronic hypertext: official; publicistic; scientific: a) encyclopedic and lexicographic, b) educational; literary; entertaining; social.