Virtual Discourse Research Articles

Communicative tools for organizing a dialogue in network book sand bloginge

The article deals withthe communicative tools for organizing dialoguerelations in network book blogging, which is presented as an active intellectual news platform, a video hosting site that is interesting forits capabilities of educational content and technologies for promoting new products of cinema, theater and book products in the space of virtual discourse. The authors consider the problems of communicative competence of the blogger and the basics of effective communication in the context of blog discourse, present the basic requirements for organizing the news content of the recording, the way of self-presentation and the choice of tools for virtual interaction of the blogger-booktuber with subscribers. When describing the real tools of the virtual dialogue of the blogger-booktuber, the authors refer to the blog discourse of Nikolai Zharinov on the youtubchannele Artifix. On specific examples of video recording, the ways of self-presentation of the blogger, the strategy of his interaction with the target audience, his choice of style and language elements of influence are analyzed. Particular attention is paid to the methods of selection and theme of intellectual content for the programs of this author, the creative features of the individual author's commenting on information. The authors prove that online blogging is a unique communicative environment that allows the blogger to be a creative, self-sufficient competent person, successfully combine the public and intimate in a network dialogue. Each booktuber blogger strives for "effective communication", which is understood as such a dialogue interaction that allows the speaker to achieve the goal and solve a set of communicative tasks: socio-cultural education, successful self-presentation, competent promotion of an intellectual cognitive product-novelties of the book market.

Анализ лингвоэкологичности русскоязычных лонгридов: модель «язык – коммуникант»

The article is devoted to the application of the «language – communicant» model as one of the tools for linguoecological assessment of journalistic content. The research material was 15 longreads published in Russian electronic editions. It is concluded that the most dangerous tendencies for the environmental friendliness of virtual journalistic discourse are the abuse of terminology, the use of vernacular and jargon, the abundance of complex words, abbreviations and occasionalisms that need to be deciphered, the increase in the number of univerbated words, and the style diffuseness of the text. The abuse of such linguotoxic elements can lead to «disruptions» in mass communication and the emergence of communication difficulties between journalists and their readership.

PRAGMATICS OF LANGUAGE AND VALUES IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE: TOWARDS AN EXPANSIVE PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO THE USED DISCOURSE

This research aims at analysing the pragmatic prominent discourse in the public sphere, the digital sphere in particular, that reflects special changes in the society. The meant discourse has not been investigated adequately and sufficiently namely the social, the political and the digital virtual discourses which bear an effective semantic and pragmatic power on the public space and at the same time incorporate strong transformations in the values patterns. This study utilizes a pragmatic approach, since the pragmatics is a study of using language in communication, and works on analysing daily discourses using a journalistic editorial. So, what are the changes reflected by this discourse? And what are the values represented and expressed by the prevailing discourses in the public sphere?

Communicative and Pragmatic Features of Everyday Media Discourse in French Linguistic Culture

The article studies the communicative and pragmatic features of everyday media discourse based on the material of French mass-media, particularly, on the Internet commentary as one of the genres in the field of the most important French media events. Based on the empirical material, the following communicative and pragmatic characteristics of Internet comments are identified: interactivity, creativity, authenticity, emotional intensity, brevity. The results of the study underline the importance of further studying the everyday French media discourse, its linguistic and cultural features, and the importance of making a contrastive-comparative analysis of the Internet comments to the same events by different linguistic cultures (French, Russian, English, etc.), in order to highlight ethnospecific and universal methods of social interaction in everyday virtual discourse and in everyday media discourse in particular.

Volumetric filmmaking, new mediums and formats for digital audiovisual storytelling

Currently, VR and AR film practice are expanding through the use of new techniques capable of producing footage that can be implemented in interactive audiovisual virtual discourses. Volumetric video is one of these resources, with which some authors have begun to create the very first interactive VR and AR movies. Many of these works have a prosocial purpose, as means to move the audience having an impact on society.This work is based on a methodology structured in three phases. The results presented have been obtained from the study of Terminal 3, the first interactive augmented documentary, through an analysis model focused on these audiovisual productions.

ACTUALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT PARTNER IN GERMAN VIRTUAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Scientific research is focused on identifying the means of actualizing the concept PARTNER in German virtual political discourse. First, the theoretical preconditions for the analysis of the concept PARTNER in virtual political discourse are considered. The views of many leading domestic and foreign scholars on the concepts of "discourse", "virtual discourse", and "concept" are analyzed to develop our interpretation of definitions of virtual discourse, virtual political discourse, and concept. Possible means of actualization of the concepts and the researched concept PARTNER, in particular, are clarified. The meaning of the lexical unit and identifier of the concept (the word Partner) is studied, and its synonymic row is described. 500 lexical items and phrases that form the empirical basis of the study were identified with the help of a continuous sampling method on the web pages of the German government bundesregierung.de and the German parliament bundestag.de. All empirical material is subdivided into groups that are filled inhomogeneously. The noun Partner is the first or second component of compounds, and some derivative words are also formed from it. The concept of Partner is elaborated by the use of definite verbs that name actions which can be taken both by a partner and others towards him to achieve a certain goal. The lexical unit Partner is combined with a large number of adjectives (the most frequent group), which are semantically divided into five subgroups. The "partner status" subgroup is the most filled one. Two more subgroups, such as "international/national relations" and "qualities of partners " have almost the same number of words. Examples of the use of selected lexical units in context are given, and a model of the nominative field of the concept PARTNER is constructed. Its nucleus is defined with a lexical unit and identifier, a nuclear zone containing synonyms of a nuclear lexical unit, compounds with the component Partner and derivative words, and periphery (free phrases with verbs and adjectives) included. The conclusions summarize the results of the study and outline the prospects for further research.

Мовна маска користувача соцмереж як інструмент конструювання множинної ідентичності

The main objective of the article is to analyse significance of the language mask for communications practices in social networks, its role in transformation of personal identity under the influence of network communication. In the study, we applied sociocultural and psycholinguistic analysis in the context of an interdisciplinary approach, as a synthesis of knowledge of social communication, psycholinguistics and cultural theory. In addition, critical analysis of media narratives and typology method have become an important toolkit. Summing up the study results, it should be noted that fulfilment of the universal human need for self-expression in anonymous conditions of network communication leads to a variety of different narrative masks in virtual discourse, which makes it difficult to create their unambiguous unified typology. However, it can be stated that creation of a linguistic mask is one of the important tools for constructing the identity of the author, who simultaneously appears as a marker of this identity. Today the existing typology of language strategies (event, analytical and artistic), in our opinion, should be supplemented by a visually oriented strategy, which is associated with the tendency of minimization of text formats and an increase of emphasis on the visual component. It is difficult to identify a separate strategy among ones that dominate in the modern network space, rather it is hybridity and a mixture of different strategies that generally corresponds to postmodern paradigm. In that regard, the interest in the phenomenon of multiple identity, when the network user creates not one but many language masks, becomes topical and relevant to the contemporary postmodern areas of research (actor-network theory). In this sense, identification of discursive levels (psychological, communication, philological) as meaningful discursive embodiments of narrative masks is relevant for future analysis, which different options of interaction can be used by the author to build a particular mask.

Особливості соціодемографічного «портрета» осіб, які шукають шлюбного партнера в інтернет-мережi

The aim of the article is to find out the peculiarities of the socio-demographic «portrait» of the people who are searching for a marriage partner online. Research methods and techniques are the methodological tools of the research which included the analysis and generalization of works devoted to the study of the virtual discourse of the people searching for a marriage partner online; content analysis of personal data in the context of identifying the peculiarities of language self-presentation of the users searching for a marriage partner online. Data collection for the empirical study was carried out on the site Love.ua.The sample of the research consisted of 120 Internet pages on the dating site (50 female and 70 male profiles). All obtained empirical data were analyzed separately for the sample of men and the sample of women. The significance of the difference was calculated using Fisher’s φ-test. The results of the research made it possible to determine the peculiarities of the socio-demographic «portrait» of the people who are searching for a marriage partner online. Conclusions. The identified gender characteristics in the answers to the questionnaires of a dating site reflect the real socio-demographic trends in Ukrainian society. It was found that for most men, the situation of online dating is a continuation of a real life situation, expanding its capabilities. Women mostly turn to a dating site as an alternative (compensation) to a real life situation. Adolescents and young people use the site as a «training» platform, learning to flirt and trying different tactics of behavior towards people of the opposite sex. It is investigated that when creating the self-presentation on a dating site, the author is limited by the framework of the template (questionnaire) that regulates communicative behavior, but he is given relative autonomy to create his own image. The users of a site usually avoid answering questions related to their social status, education and financial status. However, in the case of a serious attitude to acquaintance, this information is necessary, because it relates to the similarity of a social base of future partners.

Discourse Networks and Dual Screening: Analyzing Roles, Content and Motivations in Political Twitter Conversations

The increasing relevance of social networking platforms is accompanied by a growing number of studies using digital trace data. However, most studies still lack further understanding of the data-generating process. This analytical gap can be directly attributed to the prevalence of quantitative approaches, as only qualitative work is able to generate these insights. The broad methodological toolset of Discourse Network Analysis addresses this shortcoming as it combines both qualitative and quantitative approaches. The present study therefore employs Discourse Network Analysis in order to (1) determine different user groups’ varying role as senders and recipients of targeted online conversations, (2) identify and compare Twitter users’ (simultaneous) reference to different forms of conversational Twitter content, and to (3) asses the motivation of @message authors to direct particular tweets at particular user groups. To this end, this study analyzes @messages during the <em>BBC</em> program ‘Question Time’ on 2nd of June 2017—the final media encounter of Prime Minister Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn in the context of the 2017 UK election campaign. We draw on the theoretical background of Maarten Hajer’s discourse coalitions approach in order to investigate the preconditions for the formation of discourse coalitions in new and emerging virtual discourse arenas. Thus, our work not only mirrors the focus in existing literature on Twitter usage during high-profile political media events, but also emphasizes Twitter’s unique features for interactive exchange. This article identifies different forms of meta-talk and policy issues, which vary in both their general popularity with Twitter users as well as their interconnectedness. Furthermore, our analysis uncovers the motivation behind the decisions of @message authors to send particular @messages to certain groups of Twitter users. Finally, we could establish that media events only temporarily affect the topical foci of @message authors.

РОЗВИТОК КОМУНІКАТИВНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІУ СТУДЕНТІВ ЗАСОБАМИ ПСИХОЛОГІЧНОГО ТРЕНІНГУ

The article presents the theoretical substantiation of the psycholinguistic category communicative competence, which is one of the main professionally important qualities of forming the personality of a future specialist psychologist. Mental reality and speech communication of modern students are mediated by new ways of perceiving information that determine a new type of communicative behavior of its carriers. Based on the analysis of authoritative sources it is found out that the virtual communication space as a whole and the active use of the Internet in particular significantly affect the features of communicatively mediated communication of young people, deforming its verbal component. The purpose of the article is to theoretically substantiate and empirically study the development of communicative competence of future psychologists by means of psychological training. The study used a set of methods, namely theoretical analysis of works devoted to virtual discourse in scientific publications of the last two decades. Also, in order to study the effectiveness of the developed training program, a number of empirical methods were applied – observation, experiment, testing, method of studying products of activity, method of expert evaluation. Results. In order to develop communicative competence, the psychological training “Formation of Communicative Competence” was developed and implemented in the educational process. The algorithm for designing and applying assignments for lessons is characterized. The study was attended by 107 respondents, who form 4 academic groups of students of 1 and 2 courses of the Kiev National Trade and Economic University specializing in psychology. To test the effectiveness of training the development of communicative competence of students in control groups, the method “Diagnosis of communicative setting V.V. Boyko” and the methodology “Diagnosis of communicative social competence (CSC)”. The results obtained were processed using statistical methods. Conclusions. The effectiveness of the influence of psychological training “Formation of communicative competence” on the development of personality-oriented speech communication of active Internet users has been proved, which as a whole is a predictor of more effective communication strategies. The prospect of further research with the involvement of students of other professional fields (future philologists, managers), as well as the study of gender differences in virtual communication and their influence on the mental development of the individual, are offered.

ГРАФІЧНІ, ІДЕОГРАФІЧНІ ТА ПІКТОГРАФІЧНІ ЗАСОБИ ВИРАЖЕННЯ ЗГОДИ / НЕЗГОДИ В ІНТЕРНЕТ СПІЛКУВАННІ (на матеріалі французької мови)

The article investigates the means of expressing agreement/disagreement in Internet communication. Using the internet is an important way to communicate in our lives. In modern society, an important role is played by Internet culture, formed and developed in real-time. We have found that ideographic and pictographic means are directly related to the current problem of developing virtual discourse. The tendency to reduce the transmitted information at the lexical level prevails in the environment of Internet discourse, so communicators resort to the use of abbreviations. This allows you to transfer more information with less effort. Graphic tools play a special role in virtual communication to convey information and create an emotional background. Written communication loses some of the semantic means inherent in oral communication: intonation, facial expressions, gestures. As these components create an emotional background and an atmosphere of freedom of communication, the virtual text becomes "dry" and unemotional. Currently, we can transmit information using not only text but also signs, emoticons, emoticons. When communicators think that their thoughts and emotions may be misunderstood, they use graphic and pictographic elements to concretize, clarify, or reinforce what is being said.

Мистер «Что вы делаете?»: языковая личность как детерминанта текстопорождения

The article touches upon a problem of determining the generation of virtual discourse and text. One of them is a language personality of the addresser, as a person considered in their ability to perceive and generate speech. The topicality of the research is determined by the fact that the study focuses on the phenomenon of language personality, which is considered as a determinant of the Internet comments generation, moreover, the problem of communication virtualization at different levels of social and political life of society is under analysis. The article studies non-professional political discourse generated in news comments. This type of discourse appears as a result of secondary textual activity – comments on political events. However, at the preliminary stage of the research, it was found that the authors of comments choose not only political discourse as the object of evaluation, but also the participants of this or that event. One of the determinants that stimulates the generation of discourse is language identity of the closest communication partner. These are users who generate responses to the mediated news. The analysis of the empirical base (network texts in Russian and English) proves that the choice of objects for the addressee to comment on varies. In virtual communication, both the language personality of the commentator himself (explicating the phenomenon of self-reference) and that of the communication partners, as well as more socially distant figures of the author of the article and the political figure, undergo discussion in the comments.

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.

Процесс сокращения хештегов в современной виртуальной коммуникации

The article is devoted to the study of language compression, presented in one lexical unit at two different levels: graphic and semantic. The relevance of the study is due to the need to understand the basic social and political processes presented in the texts of modern virtual communication in order to identify the most important events at the present stage of development of society through linguistic analysis. The novelty of the study is that the analysis of hashtags in the English language is carried out for the first time from the perspective of the contraction process, examples of such linguistic facts are presented. Particular attention is paid to the processes of deciphering hashtags in the English language and the explication of the reduced lexical unit in the target language. It is emphasized that the principle of saving speech effort is most common in the texts of modern virtual communication. The question of the translingual aspect of the functioning of English-speaking hashtags that are subject to the process of contraction in speech is considered. Using statistical analysis, two main ideas have been proved regarding the linguistic nature of these language units: the contraction process is formative when they are created; the use of contracted hashtags in political texts seems to be a common and natural phenomenon in virtual discourse.

Особливості специфіки комунікативної діяльності учасників кіберпростору

Виконано роботу в контексті психологічних досліджень віртуальної комунікації, що становить подальший розвиток цієї проблематики у сфері соціальної психології. Представлено результати емпіричного дослідження психологічних феноменів кіберкомунікантів, особливості їх активності щодо комунікативної діяльності в кіберпросторі та розглянуто специфіку комунікативної діяльності учасників кіберпростору (соціальна мережа Facebook, навчальні та тематичні форуми). Окреслено дві групи кіберкомунікації, як одного з аспектів соціальної феноменології: кіберкомунікація як продовження, доповнення реальної комунікації та кіберкомунікація, що не пов'язана з реальним спілкуванням. Зазначено мотиви, які спонукають людину до кіберкомунікації, та виділено 15 видів основних психологічних типів кіберкомунікантів. Розглянуто типи кіберкомунікантів, які можна зустріти як у "чистому вигляді", так і у змішаному, оскільки нерідко їхні риси модифікуються і трансформуються – набувають рис інших типів чи повністю переходять у інший тип. Це залежить як від прагматичної установки кіберкомуніканта в кожному конкретному випадку, так і від його досвіду в кіберпросторі взагалі. Отримані результати розширюють наявні психологічні уявлення про типи кіберкомунікантів, що детермінуються тією чи іншою їхньою комунікативною діяльністю у кіберпросторі.

Linguistic Deviations in Virtual Discourse: A Computer-Mediated Approach

Virtual discourse is related to the new trends of using technology in communication. As such, different types of virtual discourse have been adopted such as electronic messaging, computer-mediated texts, e-mail messages and the like. These kinds of discourse are surely characterized by specific linguistic features that are different from the normal ways of speaking and writing. It is supposed that there are deviant manifestations in such discourse. This study is an attempt to investigate linguistic deviations in virtual discourse. Thus, it aims to answer the following questions:What kinds of linguistic deviation are there in virtual discourse?What is the value of such deviations?The current paper is structured as follows: section 1 is an introduction; sections 2&3 present a theoretical background on both virtual discourse and linguistic deviation; section 4 is devoted to data analysis, results and discussion; finally, section 5 summarizes the most important conclusions.

Сценарії конфліктної взаємодії у віртуальному дискурсі (на матеріалі німецькомовних форумів та чатів)

Сценарії конфліктної взаємодії у віртуальному дискурсі (на матеріалі німецькомовних форумів та чатів)

Professional Identity via Virtual Corporate Discourse: Linguistic Perspective

The article is devoted to the linguistic, social and psychological characteristics of the professional identity including its cognitive, behavioural and emotional components. The paper considers the role of virtual corporate discourse in the processes of formation, monitoring and developing of the professional identity. In authors’ opinion, corporate discourse can be considered as the exponent of the intentions, knowledge and skills of communicants and their level of professionalism, so the elements of virtual corporate discourse differentiating specialists and laymen, as well as linguistic means preferred by both groups in their professional interaction, are analyzed in the work on the material of official corporate websites.

Semantics of Social Media

The presented article is focused on the comprehensive study of the issues connected with text processing on social media. First and foremost, the standpoint of the so-called ordinary language philosophy is examined. It holds the view of the meaningfulness of words in sentences as being primarily determined by the ways in which they were put to use in the practical activity and the role they played in a broader context of the lifestyle. The contemporary lifestyle is inherent in social media with its virtual discourse which is determined not only by the words used but also by the relationships between the actors that generate the content. Second, the linguistic aspects of this issue are discussed. The modeling covering the structure of social media as well as users' texts are examined with regard to computational approaches to the broadening of the context concept in Frege's contextual principle. The examples of successful mining of such model both for traditional linguistic tasks and for the use in information filtering are provided. However, it is necessary to know how to broaden and narrow down the context. This aspect is examined by the example of clustering of the largest European social network VK

ON-LINE / INTERNET COMMENTS AS THE REFLECTION OF NATIONAL MENTALITY (CASE STUDY OF THE FRENCH AND RUSSIAN LANGUAGES)

The article deals with with revealing of the features of language representation of a national worldview of the Frenchmen in comments to political news seen as a genre of virtual discourse. The analysis of the the problem of transforming the genre of comment due to the peculiarities of the Internet communication initiated in the different recent studies and based on the modern demands of the virtual discourse questions the traditional interpretation of different languages genres and their peculiarities. Not only the journalists and the experts, but the readers as well are considered to be the subjects of communication. The research on of comments establishes the communicative intentions of addressers and the ways of their realization. The study of the specic frames verbalized in the statements in communicative intention shows the importance of the frame structure of comments for reflection of a national worldview of the communicants. The analysis defines the role of the language person in the type of discourse under study, justifies the possibility of reconstructing the national worldview based on numerous on-line comments to the articles related to news, which attract the greatest attention and feedback of the readers.