Chief Editor
Lilia R. Duskaeva (Russia)
Executive Editor
Natalya A. Prokofeva (Russia)
Editorial board
I. V. Annenkova (Russia)
D. Brzozowska (Poland)
V. Ye. Chernyavskaya (Russia)
V. Z. Demjankov (Russia)
T. van Dijk (Spain)
T. G. Dobrosklonskaya (Russia)
St. Gajda (Poland)
Zhang Huiqing (China)
V. I. Ivchenkov (Belarus)
M. I. Konyushkevich (Belarus)
M. A. Kormilitsyna (Russia)
I. P. Lysakova (Russia)
T. V. Shmeleva (Russia)
O. B. Sirotinina (Russia)
L. Tsoneva (Bulgaria)
K. Voltmer (UK)
H. Ja. Wasserman (South Africa)
M. Wojtak (Poland)
Guest Editor
Dorota S. Brzozowska (Poland)
GENERAL THEORETICAL ISSUES OF MEDIA LINGUISTICS
S. Attardo (Texas, USA)
Memes, memeiosis, and memetic drift: Cheryl’s Chichier She Shed
V. Tsakona (Athens, Greece)
Tracing the trajectories of contemporary online joking
CRITICISM OF MEDIA SPEECH
D. Brzozowska (Opole, Poland), W. Chlopicki (Krakow, Poland)
April Fools’ day news — still funny?
L. I. Grishaeva (Voronezh, Russia)
Discontinuity of patterns?
STYLISTICS OF MEDIA SPEECH
V. V. Vasileva, L. Yu. Ivanova (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Facetious tone as a technique for organization of interaction in news television communicate
E. V. Stoyanova (Shumen, Bulgaria)
Metaphor in the context of creating the comic effect in media text
LINGUISTIC DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
L. R. Duskaeva, E. A. Shcheglova (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Perception of а comic text-prank in the dialogue of network communication: Сreating a problem
K. M. Shilikhina (Voronezh, Russia)
Categorizing function of canned jokes in mass media texts
Yu. V. Shchurina (Chita, Russia), M. B. Harohorina (Velikii Novgorod, Russia)
Internet meme as a “newsmaker” in the modern media space