The text of a Political Internet Commentary as a Virtual Cultural Object: A linguoaxiological analysis

Abstract

Kazakhstani political internet commentaries on political articles on the information portal Nur.kz are the object of the research. The choice of the object is justified with the development of information technologies, which contributed to the emergence of various types of genres, in our case — texts of virtual space. The aim of the study is to determine the value factor of the text generation of Kazakhstani political Internet commentaries. The subject of the research is the correlation of the value potential of the source text and the value attitudes of the virtual linguistic personality, realized in the Internet comments. To study this object, methods of collection and contextual analysis of theoretical material, comparative, generalizing, descriptive methods, and a method of quantitative data processing were used. The results of the study showed that the texts of Kazakhstani Internet comments prevail with value potential. Realizing himself as a commentator, first, a linguistic person operates with concepts that have a great value for him and therefore they are reflected in the national picture of the world, which basis are linguistic and cultural units. If a text, including the Internet commentary text, contains rich cultural information, then it becomes possible to talk about it as a part of the national consciousness, which is rather one of the factors of national identity formation, which increases this study’s significance.