Discursive Practices of Internet Communication in the Light of Linguistic Research: A Systematic Review

Abstract

The review aims to systematise scientific works in the field of linguistics for the 2000-2022 period devoted to the analysis of discursive practices of Internet communication and their characteristics. The review is novel in that it is the first to actualise the latest data obtained by Russian and foreign researchers of Internet communication in the framework of a cognitive-discursive approach to the study of linguistic phenomena, as well as to assess the degree of development of this scientific field in works of modern linguists. Special attention was paid to the corpus of linguistic works of the last few years. At the same time, despite the presence of a fairly large number of works devoted to the study of the Internet language and its various aspects, no comprehensive study of discursive practices of Internet communication has been undertaken to date. As a result, approaches to the formation of the terminological apparatus of Internet linguistics have been described, linguists’ views on the discursive nature of Internet communication and consideration of Internet discourse as a separate type of discourse have been summarised, discursive practices of Internet communication and their characteristics have been examined, possible directions for further research of Internet discourse have been outlined.