Experience of the Russian Internet Chat Genre Linguistic Analysis
The research deals with analysis of the Russian internet chat genre from the point of view of cognitive linguistics notions of “concept”. We pay our attention most of all to semantic and stylistic categories of expressiveness and emotionality, reasons why this or that language personality is willing to form and use this or that implicit meaning on the graphic, syntactic as well as lexical levels of communication. The study is highly connected with the distinctive features of the Internet discourse developing increasingly nowadays. It refers to the views of several experts in this subject area. It relies on the concept of implicit interpretation; that is ambiguity of interpretation of the new metaphorically derived words. It also concerns a language personality’s will to use metaphors and other implicit expressions making the addressee to guess what cognitive specifics this or that semantically derived word or word combination has got and come to know its conceptual links with a new cognitive option of interpretation. The range of various implicit meanings arising in each Russian Internet chat has got a rather complicated structure due to the Russian speakers personality will to attract potential communication partners to spontaneous, informal, highly expressive and emotive discussion of the subject they are interested in. Informal and slang words and expressions, which are typical for the Russian Internet chat are necessary due to the Russian chat talkers’ taking aim at the open dialogue, highly emotional, free and easy polemics on issues, which their Russian chat partners consider as well.