Internet-text in modern media stylistics

Abstract

In modern linguistics (text style in particular) there is a need to define the status of a new type
of text - Internet text. The purpose of this study is to formulate a definition of Internet text and determine its
differential features. The rationale for this work is determined by the fact that internet communication is in the
center if mass communication. Internet communication has special technological and linguistic parameters that
distinguish it from other types of media. The novelty of the research is based both by the statement of the scientific
problem - the definition of the status of the Internet text, and in the creation of the author’s typology of modern
media texts, as well as the specification of their basic categorical characteristics. The article proves the scientific
hypothesis that the classical text, understood as a complete semantic unity, is undergoing serious changes in the
Internet space. Media text in the Internet space adapts to the phenomenological features of the Web and receives
special media additives (interactivity, nonlinearity, incompleteness, etc.), which in turn, has a strong impact on
its genre and stylistic structure. The main conclusions of the study are that in modern philological science is
emerging promising for the study of Internet communication new area of stylistics - Internet style. The basis
of Internet stylistics are media texts of a special type (they can be called Internet texts), which differ from both
classical texts of book culture and from media texts functioning in traditional media (print, radio, television).
Internet text, preserving the leading parameters of the classic text, gets special characteristics associated with the
new technological features of Internet communication.