A New Discursive Revolution? (Towards Comprehending Two Typological Characteristics of Internet Communication)

The article presents a view of the current state of the theory of discourse, which, according to the author, is going through a transitional period, associated, on the one hand, with the areas of speech research that have become relevant in recent years, and on the other hand – with the emergence and rapid development of a fundamentally new sphere of speech communication – the Internet communication.

The author compares the current state of the theory of discourse with the previous one, in which three full-fledged scientific revolutions took place in a very short time (the text does not have to be artistic; the text does not have to be written; the text does not have to be monologic), and suggests that the time is ripe for a new – the fourth – discursive scientific revolution: the text does not have to go beyond the mind of a separate language personality; an inner speech, a monologic verbal thinking is in itself a valuable object of the theory of discourse.

The article examines the theoretical (typology of speech) and practical (empirical psycholinguistics, literary criticism) prerequisites for the formation of a new direction in the theory of discourse – discursive studies on monologic verbal thinking.

The main part of the research is devoted to Internet communication.

The focus is on two opposite, but dialectically related characteristics of Internet communication: an increase in the degree of dialogicity (the number of sources of information and the rate of exchange of remarks and making new contacts) and a decrease in the degree of dialogicity (autism and escapism) (“interactivity and interpassivity”), – which the author proposes to understand as a simultaneous strengthening in Internet communication, firstly, the beginning of a monologue corresponding to the “fourth discursive revolution”, and secondly – the beginning of an influential one, seemingly opposite to the first, but in reality inextricably linked with it.

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discursive scientific revolution, communication models, monologic verbal thinking, Internet communication, interactivity, interpassivity, Internet creativity

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24.06.2021

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GOST	Dementyev V. A New Discursive Revolution? (Towards Comprehending Two Typological Characteristics of Internet Communication) // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka – 2021. – V. 80. – Issue 2 C. 64-80 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://izv-oifn.ru/S241377150014556-4-1 (circulation date: 19.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S241377150014556-4
MLA	Dementyev, Vadim V "A New Discursive Revolution? (Towards Comprehending Two Typological Characteristics of Internet Communication)." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 80.2 (2021):64-80. DOI: 10.31857/S241377150014556-4
APA	Dementyev V. (2021). A New Discursive Revolution? (Towards Comprehending Two Typological Characteristics of Internet Communication). Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka 80(2), pp.64-80 DOI: 10.31857/S241377150014556-4

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