Lukashenko N. Spanish Internet-Discourse: Pragmatic and Stylistic Perspectives (A Study of Forums on Family Relations Problems)

The thesis focuses on the study of communicative, pragmatic and stylistic features of Spanish Internet-discourse on family relations problems. Internet-discourse is analyzed as a specific phenomenon of speech communication; its hypertext structure is defined. The place of the Internet-discourse in the system of functional styles is determined. The Spanish Internet forum on family relations problems is analyzed as a genre of the Internet-discourse. The thesis highlights communicative, pragmatic and stylistic peculiarities of Spanish Internet-forum. Its basic structural units are determined. The influence of a communicative situation and Internet etiquette is studied. The addresser’s communicative strategies and tactics of Spanish Internet forums on family relations problems are analyzed. Basic lexical, morphological, syntactical, as well as graphic stylistic means and stylistic figures of Spanish Internet-discourse on family relations problems used to actualize addressers’ communicative intentions and pragmatic purposes are examined.