Methodological analyses algorithm of the interactive counterargument negation

Fang Zhiyong

The article deals with the methodological aspects of the negation studies of interactive counterargument in the Internet-comment genre texts. The five-step algorithm is elaborated: 1) collecting of incentive messages, 2) revealing of interactive counterarguments, 3), 4) processing comments with negative argumentation and language means of its expression, 5) pragma-dialectic analyses of interactive counterargument. We have identified the main speech models, from which the most common is the confrontational speech model.

Keywords:methodological algorithm, interactive counterargument, negation, speech model, argumentation.