DISCOURSE OF THE INTERNET: DEFINITION AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The article considers the questions related to the definition of the Internet discourse, and suggests a new methodology for the analysis of the Internet discourse that is a description of a universal system of the network discourse constituting features. The features being formulated are divided into external and internal ones. The external features are being psychological and sociological, and the internal are being cognitive, interactive and variant. Each of the formulated features gets its characteristic in this article.