NATIONAL PECULIARITIES OF RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH INTERNET COMMENTS

The relevance of this article is due to the need to identify the national specifics of a new genre of the Internet, i.e. comments, represented by commentaries from ordinary Internet users. The article describes the linguistic features of the means of expressing evaluation in these comments, determined by the peculiarities of Anglo-Saxon and Russian cultures. Emotionally colored and emotionally neutral evaluative words, intensifiers, graphic means of expressing and enhancing evaluation, including emoticons, which are used in the comments of the English- and Russian-speaking segments, are compared. Special attention is paid to the means represented in only one segment.