PECULIARITIES OF THE VIRTUAL DISCOURSE AND ITS MECHANISMS AFFECTING THE FORMATION OF THE SECONDARY LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY OF A NET GAMER

PECULIARITIES OF THE VIRTUAL DISCOURSE AND ITS MECHANISMS AFFECTING THE FORMATION OF THE SECONDARY LINGUISTIC PERSONALITY OF A NET GAMER

Author:  E. S. Glazyrina

Abstract:  The author of the paper approaches the Internet as a special communicative medium for a language realization. Attention is focused on the virtual discourse as a means of communication between participants of net computer games. The author comes to the conclusion that virtual computer discourse is endowed with a number of peculiarities that are able to act as mechanisms making an impact on the formation of the secondary linguistic personality of a gamer who participates in virtual games using a foreign language (especially, English). Four mechanisms are particularly distinguished.

Keywords:  discourse, virtual discourse, the secondary linguistic personality, formation of the secondary linguistic personality

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Pages:  601-606