Information on the thesis

Internet interview is defined as the genre of Internet discourse of the mixed type
that  is  destinguished  by  features  which  are  common  to  Internet  discourse  and  mass
media  discourse.  Internet  interview  is  stated  to  be  dialogic,  informative,  interactive,
distant,  mediate,  connecting  imaginative,  visual,  audial  and  letteral  components.  Data
material is represented by a corpus of 142 dialogical fragmentsof the Internet interviews
taken from the internet magazines for teenage girls.
In the paper strategic organization of the Internet interview is revealed. Interviewer
and respondent strategies and the means of their realization are suggested. It is stated that
every strategy is realized by the set of tactics which are classified into universal and
preferential  for  every  analyzed  communicative  situation  “Friends  &  Relationships”,
“Fashion  and  Style”,  “Beauty  &  Health”,  “Entertainment  &  Hobbies”,  “School  &
Career”. Speech behavior of the participants of Internet interview depends not only on
their communicative competence but also on age and gender of interlocutors.
Internet interview structure is subjected to the factor of multiple recipient which is
taken  into  account  by  an  interviewer  while  organizing  the  sense  side  of  the  Internet
interview. Internet interview discourse not only transmits the values that were created by
other media, but also contributes to the formation of teenages’ value view of the world.
Key words: Internet discourse, genre, Internet interview, netiquette, interviewer,
respondent, recipient, age, geder, communicative strategies and tactics, communicative
situation.