Peculiarities of the addresser’s and the addressee’s interaction in online movie reviews

DOI 10.51955/2312-1327_2021_4_96

Valeria A. Erman

Anastasia S. Zvonareva

Abstract. This article is devoted to the peculiarities of the realization of the categories of the addresser and the addressee in the texts of online movie reviews. The purpose of the article is to systematize and linguistically analyze the means of the addresser’s and the addressee’s nomination and their interaction explicated in the German-language texts of online movie reviews. The article defines the specific features of the secondary genre of the online review, due to the adaptation of the classical review to the conditions of the online media space. The main linguistic means of the addresser’s and the addressee’s nomination in the texts of German-language online movie reviews are identified and the peculiarities of actualization in the identified nominations of age, gender, cultural, educational and professional characteristics of communication participants and their role in the realization of the reviewer’s main communicative strategy are analyzed. The novelty of the research lies in the identification and linguistic description of the main regularities of the addresser’s and the addressee’s interaction in the texts of online movie reviews, which include self-nomination, segmentation of the target audience, reducing the distance between the addresser and the addressee and modeling of “live” communication with the addressee.

Keywords: online movie review, internet critic, users’ review, addresser, addressee, the addresser’s and the addressee’s nomination, the addresser’s and the addressee’s interaction

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