Białoruskojęzyczne komentarze na forum internetowym Tut.by
Belarusian-language comments on the Tut.by internet forum

Summary/Abstract: An article on the characteristics of comments in the Belarusian language posted on the Tut.by forum. At the beginning of the article; the author examines the popularity of the Belarusian language among forum users by compiling the number of Belarusian and Russian-language comments under the most commented articles posted on the forum Tut.by. As a result of the analysis; it was proved that although the Russian language dominates the discussed forum; Belarusian-language comments are present under each of the selected articles. However; since the main goal of the article is to characterize Belarusian-language comments; searching for individual statements under articles seemed to be an ineffective way of collecting a sufficient amount of material. Therefore; it was decided to create a text corpus consisting of a sample of the last 50 entries of 13 Internet users who between January 1 - March 31 2019; posted at least one Belarusian-language post on the Tut.by forum. In this way; a set of texts was created consisting of 890 unique segments; on the basis of which further analysis was carried out. As a result of the research; it was found that Belarusian-language comments are very diverse in terms of their content and form. Although most of the Belarusian-language authors of these posts presented common attitudes; they participated in online discussions on various topics; and their comments differed greatly in terms of linguistic correctness and diligence; the level of emotionality; the way of verbalizing non-verbal signs and the culture of conversation. Therefore; it seems reasonable to conclude that the variety of the Belarusian language researched on the Tut.by forum is very diverse; and the individual skills and preferences of each Internet user plays a decisive role in its form.

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