Abstract:
The purpose of this work is to reveal gender characteristics of the blogger’s linguistic personality in English Internet discourse with regard to a range of gender markers. In accordance with the aim set, the following tasks should be solved: - to consider various approaches to the definition of the concept of linguistic personality within the scope of contemporary linguistic studies; - to survey major approaches to the study of the English Internet discourse and discuss its distinctive features; - to reveal the specifics of gender aspect of linguistic personality investigation; - to examine lexico-semantic and stylistic markers of gender identity of the blogger’s linguistic personality; - to study lingual manifestation of gender masks of the blogger in English Internet discourse.
