THEMES OF NARRATIVE FORMS OF MEMOIR GENRE IN THE INSTAGRAM SOCIAL NETWORK

Abstract

The task of the article is to analyze topics of the genre of “memoir” in a social network “Instagram”. Despite the fact that researchers describe the general features of communication on the Internet, speech genres and its peculiarities remain still insufficiently investigated in the new environment. The researcher collectes posts including the hashtag #воспоминание as a required parameter. Using the analized data the researcher makes an assumption about the expansion of the concept of “memoir” when it has a written form in a social network. One of the dominant themes is connected with childhood. This theme includes narratives about personal subjects, stories about relatives, beloved. Due to polymodal specificity, topics of the memoir are about events of the recent past. People describe their recent memoirs about casual things. The influence of extralinguistic reasons is also expressed in the absence of a memoir covering the speaker’s life path.