TYPES OF THEME-RHEME RELATIONS BETWEEN A PUBLICATION AND A COMMENT IN SOCIAL NETWORKS

Abstract

The objective of the work is to establish and describe the nature of the semantic relationship between a social network post and a comment on it. The article focuses on studying social network texts with potentially conflicting characteristics. The material under study consists of 53 posts and 63 comments on them, selected in the period of 2023-2025 from the VKontakte network (Barnaul communities, in particular). The research is aimed at modeling the types of semantic connection between a publication and a following comment through the analysis of the theme-rheme structures of both texts by identifying dominant and peripheral semantic themes in the post and then determining the degree of their influence on the comment. The research resulted in identification of such novel types of semantic relations between a publication and a comment as linear (complete and incomplete), concretizing and hyperthematic. The paper describes the mechanisms of their work and gives models of their functioning to show the interrelation between the original publication and its commentary.