Davydiuk N. Discursive Dimension of French Twitter Ecosystem.

This thesis offers complex analysis of French Twitter as a specific digital ecosystem, identifies genre, technodiscursive and linguopragmatic peculiarities of Twitter-discourse and explores role and efficiency of Twitter in modern French mediaspace. The work explores nature of hashtags as organizing elements of Twitter-discourse, performative metadata, search and folksonomy tools, subjectively verbalized nominations of reality and presents extended functional and typological classification of hashtags as well as structuro-semantic and thematic classifications of French political discourse hashtags. Furthermore, the notion, structure and technodiscursive means of construction of Twitter-user’s digital identity are determined. Manipulative strategies used by French politicians in order to build their image in Twitter and linguopragmatic means of their implementation are singled out and thematic pragmatic typology of French political discourse tweets is proposed.