Nizhnevartovsk Philological BulletinNizhnevartovsk Philological Bulletin2500-1795Nizhnevartovsk State University8921510.5281/zenodo.4277655Research ArticleFEATURES OF ELDERLY DISCOURSE ON SOCIAL MEDIAFaronskayaS. Aundergraduate student, Omsk State University F.M. Dostoevsky-1512202052536126112021Copyright © 2020, Faronskaya S.A.2020This article examines the discourse of older people in the communication space of the Internet - the social network VKontakte - through the prism of speech genres (RG). Science knows a large number of works on the topic of discourse, scientists do not lose interest in genre studies - the relevance of this work is due to the fact that earlier the issue of the discourse of older people on the social network VKontakte was not considered, and the features of the Internet texts of pensioners were not identified. This article contains a brief theoretical presentation of the research topic, in particular, the author relies on the scientific works of N.D. Arutyunova and M.M. Bakhtin, practical material and conclusions to the text analyzes carried out - the intentional component of the selected news entries and the dominant speech genres in the comments of older users to publications. The subject of the research is speech genres in the discourse of pensioners (based on comments to news publications). The goal is to identify the features of the discourse of older people on the VKontakte social network. The material for the work was the posts of the “News for pensioners” group on the topics “Politics” and “Medicine” and the comments of subscribers to them. The audience of the named group is 55+, subscribers prefer the lexeme “retired” to the definition of “elderly”. The methodological basis of the research is made up of linguistic analyzes of texts - content and intent analyzes; when describing RJ, the speech genre model developed by T.V. Shmeleva and the RJ formula by A. Vezhbitska were used. Thus, in the course of the study, a content analysis of the News for Seniors group, an intent analysis of publications were carried out, and the leading speech genres in the comments of older people were identified. In total, ten publications on the topics “Politics” and “Medicine” were considered (five on each topic), there were 200 comments to these news entries (114 - “Medicine”, 86 - “Politics”).discourseelderly peoplepublicationscommentsspeech genresдискурспожилые людипубликациикомментарииречевые жанры[Арутюнова Н.Д. Дискурс // ЛЭС. М., 1990. С. 136-137.][Бахтин М.М. Проблема речевых жанров: Собр. соч. М.: Русские словари, 1996.][Болтнева Н.А. О проблеме дискурса в современной лингвистике // Ученые записки Тамбовского отделения РоСМУ. Тамбов, 2015. URL: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/o-probleme-diskursa-v-sovremennoy-lingvistike (02.09.2020).][Пашинян И.А. Контент-анализ как метод исследования: достоинства и ограничения // Научная периодика: проблемы и решения. М.: Мир науки, 2012. URL: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/kontent-analiz-kak-metod-issledovaniya-dostoinstva-i-ogranicheniya (10.09.2020).][Слово в действии. Интент-анализ политического дискурса / Под ред. Т.Н. Ушаковой, Н.Д. Павловой. СПб.: Алатея, 2000. 316 с.][Толковый словарь Ушакова. URL: https://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/ushakov/1009254 (10.09.2020).]