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<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.4" article-type="research-article" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 2. Языкознание</journal-title></journal-title-group><journal-id journal-id-type="issn">1998-9911</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="eissn">2409-1979</journal-id></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15688/jvolsu2.2026.1.12</article-id><title-group><article-title xml:lang="ru">ТИПОЛОГИЯ ИНТЕРНЕТ-МЕМОВ КАК ИКОНИЧЕСКИХ ЛИНГВОКУЛЬТУРНЫХ СИМВОЛОВ</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>TYPOLOGY OF INTERNET MEMES AS ICONIC LINGUACULTURAL SYMBOLS</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Абросимова</surname><given-names>Лариса Сергеевна</given-names></name><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Абросимова</surname><given-names>Лариса Сергеевна</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Abrosimova</surname><given-names>Larisa</given-names></name></name-alternatives><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/><email>labrosimova@sfedu.ru</email><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">0000-0002-2244-4329</contrib-id></contrib><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation)</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Южный федеральный университет (Ростов-на-Дону, Российская Федерация)</institution></aff></aff-alternatives></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub" iso-8601-date="2026-04-30"><day>30</day><month>04</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>25</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>170</fpage><lpage>177</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-09-02"><day>02</day><month>09</month><year>2024</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2025-11-11"><day>11</day><month>11</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><license><license-p xml:lang="ru">CC BY 4.0</license-p></license></permissions><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В статье интернет-мемы описаны как новый фольклорный жанр цифровой среды, актуализируемый в связи с изменением и появлением новых видов визуальной коммуникации. Рассматривается потенциал изучения интернет-мемов, представляющих собой многогранным источником культурной информации благодаря способности отражать, сохранять и передавать значимые понятия и элементы конкретной этнокультуры. Разработанная типология основана на анализе российских и американских интернет-мемов, созданных в период с января 2020 г. по апрель 2022 г., и включает различные аспекты мемов: форму и жанр, структуру, происхождение, распространение, темы, новизну информации, используемые образы, комические приемы. Данная информация помогает устанавливать лингвокультурную специфику исследуемых единиц сетевого жанра. Язык мемов обычно оригинален и передает некоторые культурные особенности (обращения, порядок слов, уменьшительно-ласкательные формы, эллиптические конструкции, прецедентные имена и т. д.). Используемые в мемах образы также несут культурную информацию. Темы, затрагиваемые мемами, часто актуальны для определенной нации и могут неправильно интерпретироваться или вообще не восприниматься другими нациями. Комические приемы различаются в разных культурах, демонстрируя те или иные специфические установки. Предложенная типология мемов способствует выделению сходств и различий сравниваемых культур, что составляет перспективу для дальнейшего развития лингвокультурологии.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article discusses Internet memes as a novel folklore genre of the digital environment, which is becoming more relevant due to the emergence of new types of visual communication. The units of digital folklore – memes – represent a valuable source of cultural information due to their tendency to reflect, keep, store and convey the essential concepts and elements of a specific ethnoculture. The given typology is based on the analysis of Russian and American Internet memes issued between January 2020 and April 2022. The typology includes various aspects of memes: form and genre, variety, type, distribution, topics, novelty of information, images, comic techniques. This information helps to identify the linguacultural specificity of memes. The language used in memes is usually original and also reflects some cultural information which is presented by word order, diminutive units, elliptical forms, precedent names, various forms of direct address, etc. Comic devices differ from culture to culture, demonstrating certain attitudes and specificities. The visual images used in memes also carry cultural information. The topics covered by memes are often relevant to some specific nation and may not be perceived or interpreted correctly by other nations. Thus, the suggested typology, the analysis and comparing ethnically-oriented memes can contribute to revealing up-to-date similarities and differences of the compared cultures, which can be used for further development of cultural linguistics.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>культура</kwd><kwd>лингвокультурология</kwd><kwd>интернетлор</kwd><kwd>интернет-мем</kwd><kwd>типология мемов</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>culture</kwd><kwd>cultural linguistics</kwd><kwd>internetlore</kwd><kwd>internet meme</kwd><kwd>memes’ typology</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><ref id="ref1"><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Chagas V., Freire F., Rios D., Magalhães D., 2019. Political Memes and the Politics of Memes: A Methodological Proposal for Content Analysis of Online Political Memes. First Monday, vol. 24, no. 2 (Febr. 2019). 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