Features o/"lyrical on-line miniature'' genre: results and prospects of research

The subject of this article is the results of the study of the genre ''lyrical miniatures'' in on-line communication in linguopragmatic and metalinguistic aspects and outlines of the prospects for the research. We prove that the lyrical on-line miniature is an Internet genre. The Internet is the reason for the appearance of a new variety of text. Currently, researchers are concerned with the study of small texts, but the linguistic study of the genre of miniatures has not yet been carried out. Miniature is the genre of texts with the main distinctive feature of a small size of text. The results of the present study demonstrate the prevalence of lyrical Internet-miniatures (LIM) in on-line communication. Currently, only one on-line resource has more than 10 thousand miniatures published in one month, respectively, in a year it is more than 120,000 texts of miniatures. This fact suggests the stability of this form of speech product. So, this genre has to be studied. The purpose is to determine the nature of the genre LIM based on virtual communication in discursive and metalinguistic characteristics and to identify research perspectives of LIM. The discursive aspect of the research shows that LIM has a number of specific linguopragmatic characteristics founded at the cross of lyrical discourse and the discourse of Internet communication features. Settings of the traditional genre of literature expand the number of characteristics, besides LIM has new features or transforming features characteristic of literary miniatures, according to the new medium of communication (Internet presentation function, active reader and feedback, speech patterns of everyday consciousness, multimedia, hypertext link of genres). The metalinguistic aspect of study of the speech genre is based on the opinion that the speech genre is a model of statement in the minds of the speakers and writers, suggesting the cognitive-mental nature of the genre. Having analyzed the recipients' statements, the authors of this article concluded that there is a meta-concept of LIM: 1) the scheme of the genre, 2) the reasons to write LIM, 3) the communicative space of LIM in blogs, forums, literary sites, 4) the status and social importance of the genre. LIM on the Internet is a productive genre, people consider LIM to be not so much a literature, but a "folk art" genre. Research perspectives are the study of the phenomenon of lyricism in modern on-line communication, the category of linguistic creativity in on-line communication, to describe characteristics of the "network" recipient because the recipient's response, implicit in the traditional literature, is explicit and available for analysis. This methodology is productive for the description and study of other Internet genres.

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