Text volume of lyrical Internet miniature as the key genre indicator

There is no doubt, that the text size is one of the most important features of the text. The text size of the textdepends on pragmatics and peculiarities of style and genre. The genre, which has a small text size as one of its features, is defined as aminiature. The correlation between the text size of Internet miniature and its communicative and linguistic peculiarities has not beenstudied enough nowadays. The subject of this article is the pragmatic and textual studies aspects of the question about interdependenceof genre and volume. The average text size of Internet miniatures has not been determined earlier, so the necessary quantitative calculationsneed to be made. The shortest text in the studied material contains 255 words, the longest - 650 words. The text size of 42% oftexts is about 100 words, 32% of texts contain 200 and more words. It should be noted that the average electronic text is about halfshorter than a traditional miniature. Such quantitative characteristics can be compared to the average linguistic piece of poetry. Settlingthe question of correlation between text size of the text and genre peculiarities of lyrical miniatures, the criterion of small text sizeshould be related to the communicative characteristics of genre description. The text size of the text is relevant to such genre characteristicsas communicational environment, author, recipient, level of text. The Internet trait is short texts. The text size of the textcorresponding to the traditional lyrical prosaic miniature is equal to the average text size of an Internet post, that is, 100-200 words. Theintersection of communicative environment characteristic and genre characteristic is one of the reasons of lyrical miniatures functioningin the Internet. The correlations between the small text size and the subjects of communication - the author (as a young, unprofessionalwriter who prefers small texts) and the recipient (the mass reader, for whom the miniature is the most popular genre due to thesmall text size of text) - are established. The small text size shows the principle of the author-reader cooperation, which lies in shorteningof time needed for creation and perception of the text. It can be stated, that the brevity of the text is one of the authors purposes. Inthe genres speech organization, the small text size influences the level of the text mostly. Due to compression, small text forms bringsubstantial, functional, regulative levels of the text to one spot, which contains emotionality and interactivity, but keep the complex meansof text expression used by the artistic style. The characteristic of text is distinguished by specific architectonics of composition, reducedvolume-pragmatical division. Therefore, such a factor as the text size is one of the key formal-semantic characteristics of Internet lyricalminiature.

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