Precedent Text as a Special Kind of Code in the Internet Communication

Abstract

Precedent texts should be considered as one of the most complicated and multifaceted phenomena which a) indicate common background knowledge of the interlocutors if they have such knowledge; b) work as a specific code for positive and negative emotions and ways of their expression, especially in the case of communication via Internet. The article highlights the hypothesis concerning complicacy of functions performed by precedent texts, and the changing of their range.