Discursive Genres; Hypertext; Hypermidia; Hybrid Genres

Abstract

The future plurality of discursive genres was emphasized by Bakhtin. For him, the discursive genres tend to grow as the spheres of human praxis develop and become complex. Due to this anticipation already announced by Bakhtin, the purpose of this paper is to extend the notion of discursive genres for occurrences in digital social networks, baptizing them as hybrid genres, given the fact that in the web, the strictly verbal discourse leaks the borders not only of the typical linearity of verbal language, in hypertext, but also of the exclusivity of verbal discourse in its mixtures with all forms of fixed and moving images and also with sound, music, noise, and speech, in multimedia.