Sincerity in the Era of the Fast Internet: I-Message

Student: Vera Latyshkina

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2024

This work is devoted to the ways of generating sincere utterances that are relevant today – in the era of the fast Internet. We examine sincere statements aimed at revealing oneself to another, which we call I-utterances. The paper proves that in the era of the fast Internet, sincerity becomes a necessary condition for communication as the main cultural activity of a modern man, which is a communication based on trust. Trust, which is one of the main values of the era of the fast Internet, is ensured through self-disclosure of a person, which is achieved through I-utterance. The paper describes in detail the features of the I-utterance, identifies and illustrates with examples the main strategies for its production in a fast Internet environment.

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