STYLISTIC DEVICES OF REALIZATION OF GENDER SPECIFICS OF ENGLISH COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING

Abstract

The article identifies and analyzes the gender features of English-language Internet communication, stylistic means of implementing the gender specifics of English-language communication in the virtual space. It is established that communication in the virtual space has a gender markedness, which is expressed in belonging to the categories of femininity and masculinity. Special features of male and female Internet communication are manifested at the lexical, phonetic, stylistic and syntactic levels. It has been found that in modern linguistics there are different approaches to the problem of gender: the dominance approach, the cultural difference approach, the deficit approach, and the dynamic approach. Two main concepts, sex and gender, are analyzed which function within the framework of gender linguistic research. It is established that in linguistics gender is considered as a cognitive phenomenon that manifests itself both in clichés and in the peculiarities of speech behavior of communicators. It is determined that users of different sexes choose different verbal and nonverbal communication strategies in their communicative behavior. The popular female and male ways of expressiveness of the statement are characterized. The results of the study revealed that more feminine stylistic devices include hyperbole, expressive-evaluative words, euphemisms, onomatopoeia, elliptical constructions, idioms. Typical stylistic means of male verbal behavior are adjectives of the highest degree of comparison, idioms, profanity. It was found that gender peculiarities of using connotative words in online communication reflect greater sensitivity of women, compared to men, to the communicative norms of a society, women’s desire to create a friendly atmosphere and the desire to impress their interlocutor.