Abstract:
The aim of the Master's Qualification Paper is to identify English speech etiquette formulas and the peculiarities of their use in online communication. The aim of this study is achieved by the fulfillment of the following tasks: • to generalize information about traditional types of discourse; • to identify genres of Internet communication;
• to analyze characteristic features of Internet discourse and of Internet language;
• to research speech etiquette, its features and functions; • to reveal the netiquette concept, define its characteristic features, basic rules and functions in virtual communication; • to define speech etiquette formulas and peculiar features of their use in the genres of online communication.
