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Confiding on the Internet— A New Speech Genre?

Summary/Abstract: Scientific objective: The aim of the paper is to examine how confiding online differ from regular one, i.e. with semantic features given by semantics and lexicographers (see Dąbkowska, 2019). And whether these differences are significant enough to consider online confiding as a separate speech genre or just as an alternative sub-genre, which, however, can be treated as, possible due to the new medium, a variant of the canonical pattern, a type of modification of regular confiding. Research methods: Analyzes of structural (compositional), content, stylistic, and pragmatic features of confiding recognized as a speech genre will lead to conclusions. As a starting point, it was assumed that confiding is a speech genre, and its specificity can be explained using semantic procedures—by examining the meaning of Polish words that name the genre (to confide/confiding). For this purpose, the definitions contained in contemporary Polish dictionaries, thesauruses, and linguistic works on speaking verbs will be used. Results and conclusions: Online confiding may be treated as a variant of the genre known for a long time, however, the statements representing it are of a non-prototypical nature within the genre, and therefore are located on the periphery of the genre. The emergence of such a variant is associated with the adaptation of a traditional genre to a new medium, which is the Internet—it is a kind of remediatization of the genre. Cognitive value: The cognitive value of the paper are genological analysis and description of the issue of privacy in Internet communication.

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