Means of expression of emotions and opinion in francophone weblogs

Nowadays multiple blog-platforms on Internet allow to discuss diverse topics and share sentiments and opinions. Due to growing influence of the blogosphere it is becoming important to determine the subjective part of the information contained in blogs. This article deals with means of emotions and opinion in francophone weblogs of France, Canada and Maghreb. An analysis of author’s texts and comments in blogs was carried out. It was found out that categories of emotivity, expressivity and assessment form the genre particularity of blogs. The article displays representation of emotions on vocabulary and syntax levels, with the use of graphic means and stylistic devices. There are examples of lexical means which reflect linguistic and cultural features of communicative behavior in expression of assessment, emotions and opinion.