The problem of distinction between oral and written texts on internet chats material

Abstract

The article analyzes the problem of the difference between oral and written texts based on the content of messages in the new communication environment, which is currently an integral part of modern society – Internet chats. The relevance of the work is due to the fact that it contributes to the accumulation of data on the characteristics of a new type of communication, on the specifics of Internet chats as an oral and written form of communication. The aim of the study is to describe and analyze the content of chat rooms in social networks and messengers and the new means of communication used in them, due to the technical capabilities of the Internet environment, to prove that chat room messages belong to a different type of communication, depending on a number of reasons. The methods of linguistic observation and description, statistics and semantic and stylistic analysis were used during the research. The results expand the idea of the peculiarities of Internet chats connected with the specifics of their functioning (distant and mediated communication, typical for written speech) and the ability to fill a text with different means of communication, for example, pictograms (smileys, emoji), which are some analogues of extralinguistic means of oral communication. It is shown that solving the problem of distinguishing between oral and written texts, the establishment of the type of communication in Internet chats is not possible without analyzing the content of each correspondence, as some Inter net chats by their thematic focus, their participants, communicants cause the gravitation of their messages more to the written or oral type of speech.