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Keyword: «internet discourse»

The article provides the concept of the Internet-communication, discusses the functional characteristics of the Internet-communication as a rapidly developing, diverse, multifunctional sphere. The author analyses the Internet-communication status and its distinctive features peculiar only to norms of language and speech behavior in computer mediated communication.
The article discusses the concept of Internet Discourse, explores modes of the transmission of the comic in a variety of genres of the virtual network. Humorous texts taken from the relevant websites are used. Their genre and thematic affiliation are analyzed, an emphasis is placed as well on the stylistic devicesused for creating a comic effect in these texts.