English Internet Research Articles

Потенциал интернет-ресурсов в иноязычном образовании

The article is devoted to foreign language education which is more effective if a student becomes the subject of his own learning process. Modern information and communication technologies (ICT) contain an enormous potential for increasing the share of independent work in the educational process. ICT is everything that helps and allows you to collect, process, store and transmit information in an electronic form. Today, the traditional carrier of the electronic information is increasingly being superseded by cloud services, allowing you to create a virtual workspace. The purpose of the research is to study the educational potential of the modern Internet space, review the main educational online resources on the Internet in English, which can be used, both for teaching and self-learning a foreign language. In the process of the research, both empirical research methods (studying various sources of information, including the Internet, observation, interviews) and theoretical ones (analysis, synthesis, classification of the information received, the descriptive method) were used. The result of our study is a review of the main online services that can be used in a foreign language education. Digital tools for the formation of language skills (lexical, grammatical, pronunciation) and the development of speech skills in all types of speech activity (listening, speaking, reading, writing) are considered. It is concluded that in the modern Internet space there are huge educational resources in English for teachers and students that allow them to promote foreign language education. These resources are an important tool in the educational process and allow you to increase the level of students’ independence.

Analyzing Internet Use Of Students in Learning English Through Their Learning Approach at IAIN Bukittinggi

The research was due to several problems found in the field; Most of students used internet in learning English and doing tasks. However, some of them were not able to explain their task results. They did not comprehend the material of the lesson eventhough they used internet. For some others, internet was worthwhile for them. Based on that, the researchers assumed that the students had varieties way in using internet. This research belongs to quantitative research by survey. The population was the all of English students which study actively in the classroom at IAIN Bukittinggi in academic year 2019/2020. There are three different grades of semester; semester 1, 3 and 5. To choose sample, the researcher used purposive sampling. The purpose of the researcher is to choose sample which use internetmostly. The finding reveals that 70.6% of the students use deep approach while using internet that consists of 25.4% in seeking meaning, 15.9% inrelating ideas, 19.8 % in using evidence and 9.5 % interested in ideas. There are 29.4 % of the students use surface approach, that consist of 3.9% in lacking of purpose, 7.9 % in unrelated memory, 12% in syllabus boundness, and 5.6% in fear failure. In conclusion, the students prefer using deep approach to surface approach.

СТРУКТУРНИЙ ТА ЛІНГВОПРАГМАТИЧНИЙ АСПЕКТИ ІНТЕРНЕТ ПОВІДОМЛЕНЬ АНГЛІЙСЬКОЮ МОВОЮ

The article presents the analysis of the structural and linguo-pragmatic peculiarities of Internet health forum messages in English. Pain is a well-known to everybody but at the same time rather private sensation that can be experienced only by person in pain and is differently viewed from the perspective of the person describing pain of another person. Talking about their own pain people feel quite comfortable, use a wide range of synonyms and adjectives that help convey in detail the quality of pain they experience. However, describing somebody’s pain people feel embarrassed, because they cannot feel the pain of another person. The article presents an attempt to describe the linguistic means used to convey pain from the first and the third person singular. The author analyses the English Internet health forum messages and the differences in the description of pain from the perspective of the person in pain and from the perspective of the person verbalizing pain of another person. These questions have not been the subject of linguistic research yet. In relation to the speaker all the verbs used to express pain were divided into the three groups: I know this pain / I have experienced it; I retell the words of another person and I see / observe what another person feels.

What evidence exists on the impact of agricultural practices in fruit orchards on biodiversity? A systematic map

BackgroundBiodiversity loss, partly due to intensification of agriculture, has become a global issue. In this context, fruit producers have been looking for nature-friendly production methods. By reducing intensive pesticide use and enhancing orchard management, they aim to create habitats suitable for beneficial organisms. Fruit production, especially in low-stem orchards, requires several interventions (plant protection, tillage, greenwork) throughout the year, each of them representing a disturbance. Thus, an expert system that evaluates and aggregates the impact of individual farming activities on a set of biodiversity indicators would be a valuable tool for developing new, less biodiversity-damaging scenarios. This expert system should be based on expert knowledge and scientific evidence. Surprisingly, our literature searches suggested that international journals contain few publications on the impact of most practices (except pesticide use) in orchards on biodiversity in general and beneficial organisms in particular. However, in the last decade, an increasing number of published articles have pointed out the rising importance of biodiversity in life cycle assessment. We therefore compiled and structured the available evidence to (1) assess the state of research on discrete biodiversity indicators and agricultural practices, (2) identify the literature relevant for assessing production impact and habitat suitability for supporting biodiversity and (3) provide a wide-ranging overview of existing evidence of the impact of agricultural practices in fruit orchards on biodiversity.MethodsA systematic literature search was performed in scientific journals, agronomy magazines and across the internet in English, German and French. The main reviewer followed a step-by-step eligibility scheme that was validated by a Kappa test between two reviewers. Additionally, a third reviewer checked a subset of articles. We mapped a large range of parameters, which were structured in code sets. To compute a study validity assessment, we used 13 parameters that reflected the relevance of each article to the impact of agricultural practices in fruit orchards on biodiversity indicator species groups.ResultsThe search returned 947 included articles. The map identified major differences in the attention given to different indicators and practices over time, ranging from closely investigated (clusters) to neglected (gaps)—e.g. spiders and birds or amphibians and reptiles, respectively. The majority of studies were short-term surveys, mainly done in low-stem orchards. Main areas studied were Western Europe and Eastern North America. The resulting database is presented along with descriptive statistics of the distribution and abundance of evidence across time, interventions and outcomes.ConclusionsThe current systematic map reveals that rigorous and comprehensive investigations on the suitability of orchards as perennial habitats for wildlife, run on the long-term and following a holistic approach, are still basically lacking. Although evidence base on orchard management effects on particular organisms has grown over the past two decades, information to develop reliable close-to-nature management tools and strategies is insufficient. The implications for policy and research suggest that—in view of worldwide biodiversity loss, which may cause a major threat for food production—a better understanding of the role played by orchards and their management in agricultural landscapes for biodiversity is required.

Sports metaphors in Polish written commentaries on politics

This paper seeks to investigate what sports metaphors are used in Polish written commentaries on politics and what special purpose they serve. In particular, the paper examines structural metaphors that come from the lexicon of popular sports, such as boxing, racing, track and field athletics, sailing, etc. The language data, derived from English Internet websites, has been grouped and discussed according to source domains. Applying George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s approach to metaphor, the paper attempts to determine both the kind of source domains from which common metaphors are drawn and to what degree structural metaphors are used. The data suggests that many structural metaphors can be found in the language of politics. They are drawn from a wide variety of sports source domains, although the domains of boxing, racing, sailing, and soccer are of particular prominence. It seems that the primary function of structural metaphors in written commentaries is to facilitate the interpretation of facts in a way that is enormously appealing to the reader.

SLANGISMS OF COVID-19 PHENOMENA IN ENGLISH INTERNET DISCOURSE

The article focuses on the problem of structural and semantic peculiarities of COVID-19 slangisms in English Internet discourse. The starting point of the study is the fact that Internet as a social and cultural phenomenon gave birth not only to an important dynamic virtual communicative environment, but also became an object of numerous scientific researches in the frame of a new linguistic branch ̶ Internet Linguistics. The article also deals with the main features of Internet discourse, such as: 1) electronic signal as a channel of communication; 2) virtuality; 3) distant in space and time; 4) dependence on technical means; 5) the highest level of penetration as the reader of Internet discourse can be anybody; 6) hypertext; 7) creolization; 8) the equal status of participants; 9) emotions and feelings transference with the help of special signs; 10) a combination of different discourse types; 11) special ethic rules. It’s proved that during the COVID-19 lockdown discursive parameters of virtual communication such as the channel of communication, the communicative goal, its time and place, the genre of discourse, the language and verbal representation have been transformed substantially. They have lost their exact boundaries and became ambivalent. The dominant stylistic feature of the Internet discourse are slangisms, a complex of special words or new meanings of already existed words, which are used by different social (professional, civil, age) groups of people for emotional coloring of new social phenomena. The obtained results indicate that according to their structure the analyzed slangisms are compound words formed by blending of two or more stems or clipping of two or more stems. They, as a rule, nominate new social events connected with the pandemic situation, new social groups of people, which appeared depending on their attitude towards COVID-19, new objects or psychological states during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Verbalization of economic crisis in English Internet news texts: nominative-referring aspect

Verbalization of economic crisis in English Internet news texts: nominative-referring aspect

Концепт «приветствие» в русской и английской блогосферах

The article deals with the concept of "greeting" in the context of the development and popularization of Internet communication. In network communication, greeting was determined as one of the most important universals of netiquette, being an invitational structure to a conversation, which is used to establish contact with the interlocutor, defining the relationships and roles of the interlocutors. The importance of greeting formulas as a mandatory component of successful web communication is shown. It is determined that the choice and use of certain greeting structures varies not only due to the communication situation, but also due to the involvement of web interlocutors in a particular culture. As an example, the analysis of Internet publications in the blogosphere was carried out in order to highlight the frequently used greeting formulas in English and Russian web-language. The most used neutral and positive greeting constructions of Russian and English Internet communication were identified.

Use of English internet dictionaries in the learning process at the language faculty

The article is devoted to online dictionaries of the subject area Food and Drinks and their usage in the educational process in the English lessons at the language faculty.

Modelling Abbreviation in Internet Slang: a Comparison Study of Indonesian Internet Slang and English Internet Slang

People, all around the world, use internet recently. The usage of internet changes the language usage as well. People tend to use short word thus they are abbreviating some words or phrases. Many of new words are coined lately because of the using of internet. The formation of the new word then belongs to the study of morphology. The main theory of this research is morphology. Moreover, it uses the theory of abbreviation. Some types of abbreviation such as blends, acronym, alphabetism and clipping are found in this research.This research entitled ‘Modelling Abbreviation in Internet Slang: A Comparison Study of Indonesian Internet Slang and English Internet Slang’. The data are taken from some websites which have internet slang dictionary. The writer only took 20 data for this research from those online internet slang dictionaries. There are ten (10) data for English Internet slang language and ten (10) data for Indonesian internet slang language. Conducting the analysis, the writer revealed that the process of abbreviation in English internet slang language is as follow: Blends (1): swexy; Acronym (2): Afair, Mapoti; Alphabetism (2): BTW, FYI; and Clipping (2): acc, app. Meanwhile, the result of abbreviation process in Indonesian internet slang language is as follow: Blends (3): gaptek, jones, palbis; Acronym (3): bais, ucul, woles; Alphabetism (2): PHP, SMS; and Clipping (2): krik, cus.

Modelling Abbreviation In Internet Slang: a Comparison Study of Indonesian Internet Slang and English Internet Slang

People, all around the world, use internet recently. The usage of internet changes the language usage as well. People tend to use short word thus they are abbreviating some words or phrases. Many of new words are coined lately because of the using of internet. The formation of the new word then belongs to the study of morphology. The main theory of this research is morphology. Moreover, it uses the theory of abbreviation. Some types of abbreviation such as blends, acronym, alphabetism and clipping are found in this research.This research entitled ‘Modelling Abbreviation in Internet Slang: A Comparison Study of Indonesian Internet Slang and English Internet Slang’. The data are taken from some websites which have internet slang dictionary. The writer only took 20 data for this research from those online internet slang dictionaries. There are ten (10) data for English Internet slang language and ten (10) data for Indonesian internet slang language. Conducting the analysis, the writer revealed that the process of abbreviation in English internet slang language is as follow: Blends (1): swexy; Acronym (2): Afair, Mapoti; Alphabetism (2): BTW, FYI; and Clipping (2): acc, app. Meanwhile, the result of abbreviation process in Indonesian internet slang language is as follow: Blends (3): gaptek, jones, palbis; Acronym (3): bais, ucul, woles; Alphabetism (2): PHP, SMS; and Clipping (2): krik, cus.

СПЕЦИФИКА ФУНКЦИОНИРОВАНИЯ ПОЛИМОДАЛЬНОЙ МЕТАФОРЫ В АНГЛОЯЗЫЧНЫХ ИНТЕРНЕТ-МЕМАХ

The article is devoted to analysing a multimodal metaphor functioning in the Internet memes. The originality of the study lies in the fact that a multimodal metaphor is for the first time examined in the context of poorly investigated discursive space of the English Internet meme. The functioning of a multimodal metaphor in the English Internet memes is examined in the cognitive and pragmatic aspects. The findings indicate that in memes, a multimodal metaphor is formed by metaphorical projection of the structure “goal” and the structure “source”.

Поликодовые механизмы интерпретации малых поэтических форм сетевой литературы

The article addresses the problem of decoding creolized “small” poetic forms with the reference to Russian and English Internet literature. Thus, we focus on the phenomenon of Russian Internet poetic texts poroshki and their authorized English language versions. Comic poetic texts poroshki are popular among Russian Internet users and reflect the reality of modern life. The novelty of the work lies in the new literary paradigm of interpreting poetic texts poroshki, which originally appeared within the Russian Internet.<br> The article aims at finding the mechanisms of decoding creolized “small” poetic forms as they appear in the Russian language and their English variants. Thus, we have implemented the lexical-semantic, stylistic, cognitive-discursive, and comparative analyses as we attempted to create original literary analysis which will allow to find algorithms in interpreting poetic texts poroshki (and any other “small” poetic forms) and to explain using image transformations based on creolization of verbal and non-verbal components of the texts. The suggested strategy takes into account the linguistic and extralinguistic literary codes and their creolization with non-verbal code of poroshki and allows creating semantic unity between verbal and non-verbal components of the poems. The results of the research help to promote poetic texts poroshki in the English language social networks and thus distribute this poetic form within other linguocultures.

The application of Internet broadcast in College English Teaching

This paper expounds the characteristics of English broadcasting from the perspective of “Internet” and its application in college English teaching. Combined with its application in college English classroom, this paper puts forward a teaching mode of combining Internet English broadcasting with college English teaching in order to bring out the potential of the advantages of Internet English broadcasting in college English teaching and improve the effect of English teaching at colleges.

«MEDICALISATION» OF MODERN INTERNET ADVERTISING (BASED ON ENGLISH YOUTUBE COMMERCIALS)

Specific features of medicalisation within modern English internet advertising space are considered in this paper. Medicine adverts and commercials hosted on one of the most popular English public websites are of particular interest in this research project. Both innovations in medicine leading to the medical knowledge upgrade and the increasing role of medical product advertising activities motivated the present study. Medicalisation in mass-media discourse is characterized by popularization of various medical commercials enduing general public with the medical language and medical mindset. The specific objective of this study is to reveal and systematize factors providing aforenamed tendency to medicalisation of modern English internet advertising. The empirical study is based upon the modern medicine commercials from YouTube.com and includes such methods as data collection and analysis, description and classification of material accompanied by discourse analysis. The most remarkable result to emerge from the data is that pharmaceutical and healthcare service commercials are very popular today due to social needs and requirements and consequently supported by the British authorities aiming to emphasize the importance of health and indicate possible ways and means of health maintenance. Another important finding is that celebrities and politicians participation in medicine advertising is contributing a lot to the success and commercialization of the medical items. Further analysis showed that the authors of commercial video clips are trying to highlight human values applying various verbal and non-verbal means to increase the perlocutionary effect. Positive and negative comments on commercial videos aimed at focusing upon the effect of medical products contribute to expanding pragmatic potential of the internet advertising. The growing trend to popularization of health product is also supported by the findings of the research project intended to describe English medical linguistic markers registered in mass-media discourse under analysis.

Objectivity and subjectivity effect identification of spatial coordinates in English Internet news stories: cognitive basis

Objectivity and subjectivity effect identification of spatial coordinates in English Internet news stories: cognitive basis

PECULIAR FEATURES OF THE ENGLISH INTERNET DISCOURSE: PRAGMATIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC ASPECTS

Summary. The article deals with one of the modern trends in discourse studies – the Internet discourse. The article aims to analyze the Internet discourse and systematize sociolinguistic and pragmatic factors that determine the peculiarities of the Internet language. The object of the research is the Internet discourse and the subject of the article is sociolinguistic peculiarities of the Internet discourse. We have analyzed different interpretations of the Internet discourse by modern linguists, stating the difference between the concepts «virtual discourse», «computer discourse», «electronic discourse», «network discourse» and «Internet discourse». The ambiguous status of the Internet language has been also touched upon in our research. The language of the Internet can be attributed to a new kind of language, which plays an important role in the life of society alongside such other large language subsystems. Dealing with peculiar features in the English Internet discourse, we have outlined its goals and strategies according to a sociolinguistic approach; we can speak of the Internet discourse as a linguistic category that combines features of personally-oriented discourse. Conclusions Modern Internet discourse is a complex system of different functional styles and forms of speech. The phenomenon of Internet communication develops so actively that it begins to affect the offline communication genre system. The developed genre system is an indicator of the dynamic paradigm formation of Internet discourse. The linguistic genres that exist in reality are undergoing various modifications in the Internet discourse, making the Internet language a true third means of communication. Internet language interpretation; the impact of the Internet language on literary English; linguistic and extra-linguistic elements of the Internet language in the communicative process can become the subjects of further investigation.

Когнітивна специфіка виявлення ефектів об’єктивності та суб’єктивності в англомовному новинному Інтернет-дискурсі

The article focuses on the analysis of the cognitive background of objectivity and subjectivity effects verbalization in English Internet news stories. From the cognitive perspective the study of verbalizing objectivity and subjectivity effects involves mental processes accompanying the creation of non-literary texts and influencing the audience. Objectivity effect is defined as content representation in terms of unambiguity, accuracy and neutrality whereas the subjectivity effect rests on verbalizing contents with regard to ambiguity, approximation and appeal to the rhetorical means of influence. To differentiate between objectivity and subjectivity effects scope of predication and image-schemas are used. Scope of predication is formed via correlation between the profile representing events and their participants and the base constituting the background for understanding the profile. Image-schemas are identified as preconceptual structures, which arise from, or are grounded in, human recurrent bodily movements through space, perceptual interaction, and ways of manipulating objects.

Вариативность узуса двоеточия и тире в англо- и русскоязычных контекстах бизнес-дискурса Интернета

Вариативность узуса двоеточия и тире в англо- и русскоязычных контекстах бизнес-дискурса Интернета

Axiological Features of the Concept CHARM / CHARIVNIST in the English and Ukrainian Languages (Contrastive Aspect)

The article is devoted to the study of the linguo-cultural concept CHARM / CHARIVNIST in the English and Ukrainian languages. The aim of the work is to identify axiological characteristics of the CHARM / CHARIVNIST concept in English and Ukrainian Internet discourses on the basis of the text-recommendations “How to be Charming” / “Yak staty charivnoyu”, etc. The object of the research is concept CHARM / CHARIVNIST as an aesthetic component of the English and Ukrainian world images; the subject – similarity, difference and contrast in the ways of verbalization of concept CHARM / CHARIVNIST in the English and Ukrainian languages and peculiarities of the discourse realization of the given concept in corresponding linguocultures. Internal and external characteristics of the formation of the image of the CHARMING PERSON have been singled out. Internal features are semantic indicators of the concept CHARM / CHARIVNIST. External features are physical indicators of the concept and include mimic, eye contact, voice and touching features. For English-speaking recipients, such axiological feature as SELF-DEVELOPMENT or DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY is important, which is foregrounded through its components: self-esteem, self-confidence, self-control, “simply-be-yourself” that appear first of all in the body language, for example, FACE (satisfaction, expressive), SMILE (genuine, big, friendly, sincerely), EYE CONTACT (direct), TOUCHING (light), HANDSHAKE (firm), and VOICE (boldness, confident, gentle, peaceful, direct). The following axiological features of the concept of CHARIVNIST in the Ukrainian texts-recommendations have been singled out: sincerity, cheerfulness, originality, with physical characteristics (eyes, voice, smile) serving as "external indicators of the charming inner world", for example, eyes as a mirror of the soul, a smile as a generator of positive fluids, etc. It has been proved that the discoursive feature of SELF-DEVELOPMENT of the English concept CHARM is contrasting. It has been established that such discoursive feature of the Ukrainian concept CHARIVNIST as ORIGINALITY is contrasting, and the discoursive features CONFIDENCE and VPEVNENIST are integral to the two concepts.