Современные информационные технологии/ 1.Компьютерная  инженерия

Bulatova M.B.

 

Kostanay State University named after A. Baitursynov, Kazakhstan

 

Correlation of "oral" and "written" in the linguistic design of a blog

 

The modern level of the development of communication technologies helps to develop and to promote new forms and types of communication. The emergence and development of the Internet has expanded significantly the volume and  thespace of communication between people.

Today, the fastest growing and the least studied segment of the Internet is the communication in a blog format that is becoming more and more popular; significantly outperforming the communication services of chats, forums and personal pages.

Blog, or as it is also called a weblog is a partially modified web page in which dated entries are entered in reverse chronological order, containing not only records video, but also pictures, photos, and links to other sites, and allowing readers to leave their comments to the author's or authors’notes.

Address to the term linguistic design is not accidental.Blog is a super complex form of information presentation in the network. Texts of blogs are characterized by the coexistence micro texts with different communicative functions and, as a consequence, a different set of linguistic meanswithin the same blog. In addition, texts of the blogs are highly implemented and include verbal content, hyperlinks, images, photos, video and audio files. All of these components of the text of the blogs have certain meaning and must be analyzed in the complex. It is therefore to describe the linguistic features of blogs we should use the term linguistic design, because it seems more appropriate and relevant.

Language, as an abstract phenomenon manifests itself in the course of its use in a particular situation, or in other words, it is manifested through the speech - a complex and multifaceted phenomenon whose typology is very diverse, but, in fact, can be reduced to two basic forms - oral and written.

The most important difference between the oral and written forms of speech is that each has its own, specific, material basis of its existence."The material basis of oral speech is the sound waves in the air, the material basis of writing speechis the letters on a contrasting background, fixed in any way (paint, light, etc.)" [4].

Oral speech is a speech, sounding, functioning in the sphere of direct communication, while writing speech– fixed, mediated by auxiliary sign system, as well as by time and distance [3].

No denying the fact that synchronization of online communication, erasing time frames and status between communicators, as well as many other factors lead to the fact that the language of the Internet differs significantly from both written and oral forms of standardized literary language.

More and more frequently in the scientific literature on Internet linguistics scientists publish their opinions about what kind of language functioning in the Internet belongs to the oral and written speech [2, 3].

In our opinion, the assertion that "... with the emergence of the Internet, a new sphere of communication, some intermediate type of communication appeared, which in some sense is written (visual), and in some - oral" [2] is quite logical and can be justified in the analysis of the functioning of the language in a particular genre of Internet communication. However, we must consider that this statement cannot be attributed to all cases the use of language in the network, but only to so-called conversational genres of Internet.

In other words, the user will meet the written form of speech on the sites of large companies, ministries, libraries, educational resources. The situation is different with chats, forums, communication within the instant messaging programs, comments, blogs, etc. It is in these cases, in our opinion, and relevant introduction of the term "oral-written speech."  In our opinion, in these cases it is relevantly tointroduce the term "oral-written speech."

In the study of linguistic design of blog in the first place noteworthy is the form of language functioning in the blogosphere.

Texts of blog have nonuniform nature and are represented by two major groups of texts: posts text and comment text. It was found that the posts and comments of English corporate blogs significantly differ in structural, functional and communicative characteristics. Thus, the post has a much larger volume, united and clear author’sconcept. The business style in fluence sconsiderably on his linguistic embodiment. The main communicative characteristics of posts are informativity, accuracy, expressivity, persuasiveness. Based on the data of the research, as well as on theoretical developments of I.R.Halperin, who compares oral and written forms of speech and extracts linguistic features peculiar to each of them [1], we can assert that the texts of the posts are fully applicable to the written speech.

At the same time, comments are presented by the reports of much smaller volume than the posts, often, it's one or two sentences, the multiplicity of authorship leads to smearing of the author's concept, their linguistic realization is presented mainly in a conversational style. The main communicative characteristics of comments are conciseness and emotionality. The main characteristics of communicative comments are conciseness and emotionality. Texts of comments partly satisfy the characteristics of the written form of speech, and partly - oral, that can be attributed to their oral and written speech.

Thus, linguistic design of blog is characterized primarily by the coexistence in it two forms of speech: writing, which is represented mostly by text posts, and oral and written, which, respectively, represented by the comments.

 

Literature:

1. Galperin I.R. Essays in the style of English / AI Halperin. - Moscow: Publishing House of Foreign Literature, 1958. - 459 p.

2. M. KrongauzIdea of preserving Russian language, thankfully, is not feasible [electronic resource] / M. Krongauz / / access mode journal.: Http://www.russkiymir.ru

3. Lutovinova OV Lingvocultural characteristics of virtual discourse: monograph / O. Lutovinova. - Volgograd Univ SGMP "Change", 2009. - 477 p.

4. Rozhdestvensky Y. Theory of rhetoric / Y. Rozhdestvensky. - M.: Dobrosvet, 1997. - 212.