Internet communication as a means of cross-cultural communication: genre and language features
The article is devoted to the matter of the Internet global system as a means of electronic communication, to determination of the general notion of internet communication, its functions, characteristics and types in the modern social environment that introduce new forms of dialogue and communication to society and all of its spheres. There is an overview of the ways of the Internet communication and its linguistic peculiarities. Communication in the Internet is a fixation of oral speech. This affects the specificity of spelling, pronunciation and locking features of punctuation, which returns a semantic meaning. The syntax of this communication is characterized by the use of elliptical constructions and rearrangement of parts of the sentence. In addition, virtual communication is following to the principle of economy of efforts of sender and recipient. The electronic communication in XXI century is considered to be developing by the net model, which has synergic, dialogic and communicative aspects with their major advantage of being open for a dialogue and able to selforganise.