Abstract
The article attempts at studying language culture of a city on the material of the two leading websites, www.74.ru of Chelyabinsk and www.66.ru of Yekaterinburg. The choice of websites of the two main Ural cities is conditioned by their geographical position, similar role in the country as leading industrial centres. Language and cultural approach to website study has resulted in revealing general and special characteristics of the local city space and city image. Cognitive and discourse approach to city cyberspace research has shown the tendencies to choose both local and global issues for discussion widening the boarders of the local city culture by including actual issues for Russia and the whole world. Place names, local place names and city space verbal markers are frequently used in both websites creating true to life language and cultural message for the websites users, making city image recognizable and language culture of a city specific by using a few folk place names. City space markers have been outlined and grouped. The sites are characterized by similar content representation but differ in its realization. Diagrams and tables help verify the results of the city space analysis and website dynamics.
Highlights
The work studies language culture of a city in local cyberspace which continues urban space research at Chelyabinsk State University by S.Yu
To define what space aspects are used to present the image of a city, place names and urban verbal markers accessed from the given websites have been analyzed and classified
The website of Chelyabinsk [13] and its central news column includes the following place names, city space verbal markers including general names of the city objects and representatives of the city population
Summary
The work studies language culture of a city in local cyberspace which continues urban space research at Chelyabinsk State University by S.Yu. Dvinina [1], S.A. Pitina, G.V. Urvantsev [2]. Language culture of a city space has been successfully studied by Russian linguists R. M. Amirova [3], E. L. Berezovich [4], N. M. Dmitrieva [5], E. A. Jakovleva [6], T. V. Khvesko [7], N. A. Prokurovskaja [8], E. S. Samsonova [9], V. Superanskaja [10] and foreign linguists G. The given article focuses on analyzing Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg websites www.74.ru [13] and www.66.ru [14]
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