TYPOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF ENGLISH FAN FICTION

The article highlights typological features of the English fanfiction. work offers a brief outline history, main forms and modern trends in fan fiction studies as genre web literature. relevance study is due, above all, to fact that these works are bright example so called live language. They reflect all language trends, express musical, literary film preferences society. In addition, an understudied phenomenon has existed various forms, but received greatest impetus development only recent decades. term defined kind creativity fans popular art, derivative based on any original uses its ideas plot characters. It type mass literature, created basis art by this work, which do not pursue commercial purposes intended for reading other fans. course research it been established fanfiction group written certain topic: Action; Adventure; Detective; Romance; Fluff; Humour; Dark; Deathfic; Angst; PWP (Plot, What Plot?). To denote characteristic authors use "category". Categories classify according characteristics, particular, source (fanfiction corresponds realities world, Alternative Universe Crossover); presence love line (General audience, Heterosexual, Slash); fictional characters (Original character, Self-insertion). A unique form Songfic - single song, quoted author story. perspective analysis structural, stylistic pragmatic discourse.