Abstract:
The aim of the paper is to identify and describe the means of verbalization and non-verbalization of evaluation in Internet forums. In accordance of the paper with the aim, following tasks were set: ➢ to define the notion of the Internet forum and the functional and stylistic features of this genre of Internet communication; ➢ to consider the concept of multimodality in the context of Internet forums; ➢ to consider and compare existing approaches to the study of assessment, to study the structure of assessment and ways of its verbalization and non-verbalization at different language levels; ➢ to elaborate an evaluation classification based on the classifications presented in the master's thesis;
➢ to define the notion of internet comments as a subgenre of internet discourse;
➢ to conduct a linguistic analysis of the means of expressing evaluation in Internet forums.
