Language means of expressing emotional information in the Internet communication (a case study of the Russian language)
The purpose of this article is to analyze language means of expressing emotionality with exclamation sentences in the context of new information and communication environment of the Internet. The article describes different types of exclamation sentences and their possible transformations in the Internet dialogue. There are two types of exclamation sentences. The first type is represented by exclamation sentences similar in composition to non-exclamation ones. The second type includes sentences with infinitive and incomplete constructions, as well as the declarative type of affirmative sentences. With linguistic observation, quantitative and contextual methods applied, Internet dialogues are analyzed, published in the blog of the Ministry of Health on the Government Portal of the Orenburg Region and in the section “Health” on the website of the administration of the Vologda Region. The most frequent structures of exclamation sentences used by the subjects of communication are established, as well as the regularities and peculiarities in the use of lexical and graphical ways of transmitting emotional information at the level of exclamation sentences in the Internet communication. Comparative analysis revealed certain trends in the implementation of linguistic means that convey emotionality in virtual communication. Users of the Orenburg administrative resource employ exclamation statements twice as often as visitors to the online reception of the Vologda administration. The most frequent linguistic means of expressing emotion in exclamatory sentences of Internet dialogues of users of the Orenburg and Vologda Regions is the traditional construction of an exclamatory sentence with an exclamation mark. For expressing emotional information by means of exclamation sentences, participants of Internet communication use capital letters, repetitions of the grapheme “!”. A combination of these graphic means, declarative type of affirmative sentences, exclamation constructions with exclamation particles is used.