ON THE ISSUE OF TYPOLOGICAL LINGUISTIC PECULIARITIES OF THE INTERNET BUSINESS MESSAGES DISCOURSE (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN LANGUAGES)
Journal Title: Мова - Year 2015, Vol 0, Issue 23
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to tackle the problem of outlining typological linguistic peculiarities of the Internet business messages discourse as well as to find out the specific linguistic features of the discourse under analysis in the typologically distant English and Ukrainian languages. The subjects of this study are the Internet business messages discourse and the linguistic peculiarities of this type of discourse in the typologically distant languages, Ukrainian and English. Methods of linguistic, comparative and instrumental analysis, as well as descriptive method are used in this given research. Identifying the typological common linguistic peculiarities in the distant English and Ukrainian languages on the lexical, grammatical and phonetical levels is the finding of research. The comparison of the lexical, grammatical and prosodic features on the segmental and suprasegmental levels of the English and Ukrainian Internet business messages under analysis revealed some common features which have been experimentally and statistically verified as typological: 1) on the lexical level the extensive use of general and specific terms, intensifiers and means of personal contact, 2) on the grammatical levels the employment of passive constructions, non-personal verbal forms, dynamic verbs, numerals, structures of secondary predication, complex and compound sentences, 3) on the prosodic level the correlation of pitch, intensity and tempo parameters with the presence of the emotional and attitudinal connotations. The practical value of the research is to use the results of it to optimize the processes of mastering business English discourse and to improve the skills of translating Internet business messages from English into Ukrainian and vice versa, as well as its importance for fundamental studies of general and comparative linguistics.
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I. M. Derik
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