Means of cultural specificity category representation in internet discourse (a case study of Russian blogosphere)

Maximova Olga Borisovna

The article focuses on the means of cultural specificity category representation in the Internet discourse through the example of the Russian political blogosphere. To reveal their properties the analysis of Russian political blogs devoted to social and political events has been carried out. The author touches upon the hierarchic structure of cultural specific information organization. In the course of the study the semantic dominants of lexical items used by bloggers in the Internet discourse are examined.

Keywords:cultural specificity category, Internet discourse, blogs, levels of culturological context, semantic dominant, national and cultural specificity