VARIETIES OF MEDIA DISCOURSE IN RESEARCH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF RZESZOW COMMUNICATION PRAGMATICS DEPARTMENT
The Internet, as a new medium, has quickly led to a change in patterns of discourse genres. Contemporary research in this field mainly concerns the description and the assessment of the implementation of linguistic and communication phenomena, with the determination of their aspects. Such a descriptive-prescriptive research method is recommended by media linguistics (cf. 29: 2014a), as it enables to notice the state and degree of transformation of each variety representatives, and in the future it may be used as a comparative material in linguistic and cultural studies.