SPEECH GENRE “WISH” IN RUSSIAN AND CHINESE INTERNET COMMUNICATION

Abstract

The article deals with the speech genre of wishing and its implementation in Chinese and Russian Internet communication. The author defines such concepts as “speech etiquette”, “speech act of desire”, “Internet discourse”, “Internet communication”. The authors pay attention to the topic of the use of etiquette genres in cross-cultural communication. The functioning of the speech act is considered from the point of view of speech etiquette and the specifics of Chinese and Russian Internet discourses. In order to identify the features of the speech genre “wish” in the Internet communication of different nations, the article analyzed the material of the Internet discourse. As a result, the author has established similarities and differences in the expression of wishes in Russian and Chinese Internet communication.