CORRESPONDENCE IN THE MESSENGER: IDENTIFYING THE AUTHOR BY TEXT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF INDIVIDUALIZING FEATURES

Abstract

The article discusses the texts of Internet-based communication and correspondence in a messenger, the attention is paid to description of similarities and differences between oral and written dialogical speech. The problems of neutralizing speech features in the format of Internet-based communication and the transformation of attributes, which provide individual characteristic of the author demonstrated whilst exchanging messages in a messenger. It has been proposed to define the form of speech, typical of correspondence in the messenger, as dialogical written (printed) speech, with reference to it as to the product of intellectual activity in combination with the form of its implementation, taking into account the factor of the author’s usage of technical means for typing. The author represents the approaches to identifying significant speech characteristics, which are demonstrated by the addresser in written correspondence in the messenger; these approaches are often analyzed in the process of authorship identification tests. The possibility of revealing a complex of author’s individualizing features is proved. This paper emphasizes the importance of studying the signs of the graphic and communicative levels of the analysis of dialogical texts, provides the examples of implementation of such signs. In this article the relevance of combining linguistic and quantitative methods of analysis in revealing the author’s individualizing identificational features is proved, the paper also outlines the prospects for further research in the field of studying the linguistic personality of the digital age.

Keywords

• text
• dialogical speech
• written dialogical speech
• internet-based communication
• messenger
• authorship identification
• individualizing feature
• transformation of individualizing feature