LINGUAL FEATURES OF ENGLISH FAN FICTION

Abstract

The article highlights lingual features of the English fanfiction. The work offers a brief outline of history, main forms and modern trends in fan fiction studies as a genre of web literature. The relevance of the study of fan fiction is due, above all, to the fact that these works are a bright example of the so called live language. They reflect all modern language trends, express the musical, literary and film preferences of the society. In addition, fan fiction is an understudied phenomenon that has existed in various forms, but has received the greatest impetus in development only in recent decades. The term fan fiction is defined as a kind of creativity of fans of popular works of art, a derivative literary work based on any original work that uses its ideas of the plot and characters. It is the type of mass literature, created on the basis of a work of art by fans of this work, which do not pursue commercial purposes and are intended for reading by other fans. In the course of the research it has been established that the genre of fanfiction is a group of works written on a certain topic: Action; Adventure; Detective; Romance; Fluff; Humour; Dark; Deathfic; Angst; PWP (Plot, What Plot?). The analysis of the linguistic features of the nominative system of English fanfiction showed that it performs a number of important functions: communicative, nominative, emotional-evaluative, expressive, phatic, signalling/identification. The most significant quality/property of fan fiction is the “secondary nature” of fan creativity, in connection with which one of the key research tasks is the study of the relationship between the original text and fan fiction. It is interesting that fanfiction from the standpoint of literary studies/linguistics is initially evaluated as a phenomenon that belongs to the lowest manifestations of paraliterature and therefore does not deserve serious attention. However, determining the place and status of fan fiction in the modern speech process is one of the tasks, the solution of which is relevant for researchers. The perspective of this study is the analysis of structural, stylistic and pragmatic features of fan fiction discourse.