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The journalistic style, one of the varieties of which is newspaper speech (newspaper substyle), turns out to be a very complex phenomenon due to the heterogeneity of its tasks and communication conditions. [Rosenthal, 1997:154] We will talk first of all about the features of newspaper speech, since it is more explored in modern style. The term “journalistic style” is used deliberately for the sake of preserving the unity of terminology (common names of functional styles).

One of the important functions of journalism (in particular its newspaper and magazine variety) is informational. The desire to report the latest news as soon as possible could not but be reflected in the nature of communicative tasks and in their speech embodiment. However, this historically original function of the newspaper was gradually pushed aside by another - agitation and propaganda - or otherwise - influencing. “Pure” information content remained only in some genres, and even there, thanks to the selection of the facts themselves and the nature of their presentation, it turned out to be subordinate to the main, namely agitation and propaganda, function. Because of this, journalism, especially newspaper journalism, was characterized by a clearly and directly expressed function of influence, or expressiveness. These two main functions, as well as the linguostylistic features that implement them, are not dissected in newspaper speech today.

The genre repertoire of modern journalism is also diverse, not inferior to fiction. Here you can find a report, notes, newsreels, an interview, an editorial, a report, an essay, a feuilleton, a review, and other genres.

Journalism is also rich in expressive resources. Like fiction, it has significant power of influence, uses a wide variety of tropes, rhetorical figures, and a variety of lexical and grammatical means.

Another main stylistic feature of journalistic speech is the presence of a standard.

It should be borne in mind that a newspaper (and partly other types of journalism) is distinguished by a significant uniqueness of the conditions for linguistic creativity: it is created in the shortest possible time, sometimes making it impossible to perfect the processing of linguistic material. At the same time, it is created not by one person, but by many correspondents who often prepare their materials in isolation from one another.

The main stylistic principle of V.G.’s journalism Kostomarov defines it as unity, the combination of expression and standard, which constitutes the specificity of newspaper speech. Of course, in a certain sense, the combination of expression and standard (in certain “doses”) is characteristic of all speech in general. However, it is important that it is in newspaper journalism, unlike other speech varieties, that this unity becomes a stylistic principle for organizing a statement. This is the main meaning and, undoubtedly, the value of V.G.’s concept. Kostomarova. Meanwhile, the first component still has priority in this unity.

The dominant feature of the journalistic style is, as defined by M. Kozhina, “social assessment.”

In this regard, the journalistic style is also characterized by the search for biting and accurate assessments, requiring unusual lexical combinations, especially during polemics: a giant trust of deception; suspected of loving freedom.

Expression of assessment is expressed by superlative forms in the elitative meaning: the most decisive (measures), the most severe (crisis), the most acute (contradictions); most excellent, strictest, most advantageous.

These are, in general terms, the main features of newspaper style and the linguistic means of their implementation.

The material for creating evaluative newspaper and journalistic vocabulary is the entire dictionary of the literary language, although some of its categories are especially productive in journalism.

The influencing function of the newspaper-journalistic style is especially clearly manifested in syntax. From a diverse syntactic repertoire, journalism selects constructions that have significant potential for impact. It is expressiveness that attracts journalism to the constructions of colloquial speech. They are, as a rule, compressed, capacious, and laconic. Another important quality is their mass character, democracy, and accessibility. Against the background of the generally bookish syntax of journalism, colloquial constructions stand out for their stylistic novelty.

The function of influence (expressive function), the most important for the newspaper-journalistic style, determines the urgent need of journalism for evaluative means of expression. And journalism takes from literary language almost all means that have the property of evaluativeness. It is interesting that some explanatory dictionaries of the Russian language, primarily the dictionary edited by D.N. Ushakov, give some words the stylistic labels “newspaper” and “journalistic”. This means that these words are characteristic of the newspaper, journalism, and are assigned to them. It turned out that almost all of these words have a bright evaluative connotation: agency, charity acrobats, activation, action, sore, bomber, sandwich hack, top, milestone, etc.

However, journalism does not only use ready-made material. Under the influence of the influencing function, journalism transforms and transforms words from different spheres of language, giving them an evaluative sound. For this purpose, special vocabulary is used in a figurative meaning: crime incubator, militarism conveyor belt, routes of technical progress; sports vocabulary: round, round (of negotiations), pre-election marathon, announce a check to the government; names of literary genres, theater vocabulary: folk drama, bloody tragedy, political farce, parody of democracy, etc.

The journalistic style is characterized by the use of evaluative vocabulary with a strong emotional connotation, for example: positive changes, an energetic start, an irresponsible statement, a firm position, behind-the-scenes fighting, a breakthrough in negotiations, dirty electoral technologies, a villainous murder, vile fabrications, a severe crisis, an unprecedented flood, crazy adventure, brazen raid, political performance, biased press, galloping inflation, barracks communism, ideological bulldozer, moral cholera.

The newspaper gives birth and cultivates its own phraseology. Stable combinations are a ready-made arsenal of newspaper standards and often become stamps. Examples: relay of generations, keeping up with the times, flipping a duck, etc. These can be general linguistic phraseological units, but filled with new content and again high-frequency in the newspaper:

• a) with a negative assessment: to rake in the heat with someone else’s hands, to sing from someone else’s voice, to warm one’s hands;
• b) with a positive assessment: work tirelessly, golden hands, etc.

Week 13. Topic: “Publicistic style and its characteristics. Functions of journalistic style. Style-forming features. Linguistic means that shape journalistic style.”

Target: Formation of students' concept of journalistic style of speech.

Upon completion of the lesson, the student should be able to:

1. distinguish between literary and non-literary styles of speech;

2. identify texts of journalistic style according to characteristic features;

3. highlight linguistic means characteristic of the journalistic style;

4. use journalistic texts in accordance with the communicative situation;

5. use glossary words in the process of professional communication.

The word journalism comes from Lat. publicus– public.

The main goal of the journalistic style is to inform, convey socially significant information, influence the reader, listener, convince him of something, instill in him certain ideas, encourage him to take certain actions. Serves a wide range of social relations: political, economic, cultural, sports, everyday life, used in socio-political literature, periodicals (newspapers, magazines), radio and television programs, documentary films, some types of oratory (for example, in political eloquence ).

Exercise 1. Make up as many phrases as possible with the words “public” and “public.”

Example: public speech, public library, appreciative public.

Functions of journalistic style

- Information. The main task of a journalistic text is to convey new, relevant information.

- Expressive. Most genres of journalistic style have the goal of influencing the listener or reader.

Task 2. Read the text. Determine what function of the journalistic style is reflected in it. Illustrate your answer with specific examples from the text.

Dog is a friend of the Internet

Today, mail is associated not with envelopes and stamps, but with a dog and a dot. The character is used in an email address as a separator between the users' name and the hostname (the computers on which their mailboxes are located).

The modern name of the symbol is “commercial at”. It came from recording calculations. For example, “7 widgets @ $2 each = $14,” which translates to “7 widgets @ $2 = $14.” This symbol was used on business papers, it was on typewriters, and then it was transferred to computer keyboards.

When email creator Tomlinson was asked why he chose the symbol @ , he explained it simply: “I was looking for a sign on the keyboard that could not appear in any name and cause confusion.” The first network address was tomlinson@bbn-tenexa.

Why do Russian-speaking users most often call the symbol @ exactly “dog”? Firstly, the icon really does look like a curled up dog. Secondly, the abrupt sound of the English “at” is a bit like a dog barking. This symbol is also called a frog, a bun, an ear, a ram...

In Germany and Poland the sign @ - this is “monkey tail”, “monkey ear”, “paper clip”, “monkey”, in America and Finland - “cat”, in China and Taiwan - “mouse”, in Turkey - “rose”, in Serbia - “ crazy A”, in Vietnam – “crooked A”. But disciplined Japanese use the English “attomark”. (According to I. Rinev)

Task 3. Pay attention to the words “associate”, “commercial”, “electronic”, “Russian-language”, “disciplined”. Explain why they contain a double consonant.

Task 4. Search work. Find information about other signs and symbols used on the Internet (ampersand, octothorp, etc.). Prepare a short speech in journalistic style about these signs.

The journalistic style is characterized by the following features:

O Accuracy and reliability

O Specificity

O Passion, appeal

O Publicity

O Imagery

O Emotionality

Task 5. Explain how each feature is manifested in a journalistic text. As an example, take a magazine article on a topic that interests you.

Linguistic features of journalistic style of speech

Lexical means

O Socio-political vocabulary: democracy, election campaign, rally, progressive, political party

O Terms (science, art, sports, military affairs): arena of political struggle, information technology, dialogue between countries, innovative discoveries

O Speech stereotypes (clichés): according to data from informed sources, the century of development of communications, the era of the Internet.

O Neologisms: modified, tablet, gadget, newsmaker.

Morphological and word-formation means

Active use of international prefixes: anti-, counter-, neo-, pseudo-, ultra-, etc.: ultra-modern, anti-globalist, pseudo-art.

Words with suffixes -ness, -stv, -eni, international suffixes - qi(ya), izatssh(ya), - ist, - izm, - ant: humanism, informatization, modernization.

Nouns with a collective meaning: humanity, students.

Imperative forms of verbs expressing a call to joint action: must begin, update, let's continue.

Syntactic means

O Rhetorical questions: Who is the hero of our time? We addressed this question to our viewers.

O Repetitions: We often don’t even know all the capabilities of our gadgets, we don’t know and don’t want to find out.

O Exclamatory sentences: What a wonderful world opens up before a person who “knows” the Internet for the first time!

O Messages: Dear listeners! Today we will talk about new products in the field of IT technologies.

Task 6. Read the text. Note the features characteristic of the journalistic style. Find all the linguistic means characteristic of the journalistic style.

Make up questions for the text. When writing questions, pay special attention to neologisms related to technology.

Rewrite the text so that it takes the form of an interview (or several interviews with different people). You may add additional information or use only what is given in the text.

InterDa or InterNET?

The first Millennium Technology Award in human history was awarded to Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the Internet.

While working at the European Nuclear Research Center in the 1980s, Berners Lee invented and implemented a method called hypertext. This method formed the basis for transmitting information over a computer network.

In the fall of 1990, the world's first Internet server and Internet browser appeared - thus the “documented universe” was born, which many scientists of the 20th century dreamed of.

Unfortunately, the World Wide Web has long turned into a global trash heap. Here you can find everything - porn sites, information about drugs and explosive devices, etc. You can insult anyone in any way you like on an Internet forum page and not bear any responsibility for it. Here it is no longer possible to distinguish truth from lies. “Now the anonymity of the Internet borders on chaos,” says antivirus software developer Evgeny Kaspersky. – The lack of rules of behavior and supervisory bodies is reminiscent of the situation on the roads, where there are no rules, signs, driver’s licenses, license plates. Moreover, even if 99% of users behave correctly, 1% of hooligans will be able to disrupt the work of the entire Network.”

The solution can be found either in modernizing the Internet, or in creating Internet-2, parallel and reliably protected. After all, it is a big misconception that the World Wide Web is anonymous. A person goes online and all his movements are recorded by the provider. This means that this information can be used to organize a new World Wide Web, to identify each user (something like a driver's license).

However, according to Kaspersky, the Internet – in the form in which it exists now – is living out its last years. There are already viruses that can “kill” it in a matter of hours. It’s just that for the time being they were not released beyond a narrow circle of specialists.

If hackers launch a global attack on the Network and take out
If several superservers fail (this is the basis of the Internet - there are only a little more than ten of them), then the World Wide Web will be torn into pieces. And users from different regions simply will not be able to contact each other. And then we'll go back to the old ways
communications - mail, telephone and telegraph. We’ll probably also remember the books on the shelves... Is this really possible? (According to D. Pisarenko)

Glossary

Hypertext

Provider

Task 7. Select 20 words from the newspaper that are characteristic of the journalistic style. Ten words should have a positive evaluative connotation, the rest should have a negative evaluative connotation. Words must be given as part of sentences.

For example: Thanks to its compact size and battery power, the digital pen is excellent a companion for a graphic artist or designer, for everyone who likes to draw and draw in their free time.

Task 8. Select at least 10 journalistic set phrases from newspaper and magazine texts. Use their example to show positive-evaluative and negative-evaluative connotations in journalistic contexts.

For example:

Phrases that have a positive evaluative connotation: The world of digital technologies is developing vigorously in various directions: computer, digital, household. Phrases that have a negative evaluative connotation: Today, Internet providers do not try put a spoke in each other's wheels , since this market is practically free.

Task 9. Rewrite the text, adding the missing punctuation marks. Pay special attention to sentences with direct speech. Underline the words in the text that name social processes and phenomena; explain the meaning of these words. Write out abbreviations from the text and decipher their meaning.

At the VII Eurasian Media Forum held in Almaty at the session “The Role of the Media in the Conditions of Bilingualism and a Multicultural Society,” one of the speakers, the former Minister of Culture and Information of Kazakhstan, Ermukhamet Ertysbaev, noted that Kazakhstan eventually became one of the leaders of the CIS in the socio-economic market political modernization - bilingualism played a serious role. Currently, 463 newspapers are published in Kazakhstan in the Kazakh language, 874 in Russian - much more. The Russian language dominates because it is one of the six world languages ​​and no one in Kazakhstan sets the task of infringing on and reducing its influence... Kazakhstan, by the way, is the only country in the world, in my opinion, where from the state budget we finance newspapers published in German, Korean, Ukrainian and Uyghur languages.

Radik Vatyrshin, Chairman of the Mir TV and Radio Company said: The countries of the former Soviet Union have a common media market... The unified Russian language in our common information space is not a disadvantage but a competitive advantage.

Another problem uniting the former Soviet republics is the fight against extremism, terrorism, cross-border crime and drug trafficking. added This opposition to world evil is one of the really operating mechanisms. And if there had not been the CIS instrument and a whole series of signed agreements on the fight against terrorism, many issues would have been much more difficult to resolve, the Foreign Minister is sure.

Valery Ruzin, vice-president of the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio, said the Media Forum is a landmark phenomenon. For many journalists, not only Russian but also from foreign countries, it has become a calling card of Kazakhstan. Because here, as a rule, current interesting controversial issues are discussed and in the struggle of opinions, points of view collide very interestingly.

(Based on materials from the Khabar TV and Radio Broadcasting Company)

Journalistic style (= newspaper-journalistic)

Style is presented in newspapers, in magazines addressed to the mass reader, in speeches by journalists on radio and television, in speeches of public and political figures, rallies, congresses, meetings, etc. Style is realized in oral and written form.

The subject matter of journalistic texts is practically unlimited: political, social, everyday, philosophical, economic, moral and ethical topics, issues of art and culture, issues of education, etc. are covered. Journalism is called the “chronicle of modernity”: it reflects the living history of our society . Feature: in a journalistic style, as a rule, they talk about the most modern, relevant events for society.

Genres of journalism:

Information - provide information. This:

 Information note (chronicle note), or chronicle . This is a selection of news messages: the time, place, event is indicated, described using different forms of the verb (will take place, is open, continues, will gather, etc.) (eg: Yesterday an exhibition opened in the Hermitage. Today in Paris issues related to ... Tomorrow the summit will continue).

 Reportage. This is a genre in which the story of an event is conducted simultaneously with the unfolding of the action. Characteristic: the present tense of the verb, the pronoun “I” or “we” (meaning “me and my companions”), inclusion in the text of a more or less detailed author’s commentary, then the text is an alternation of fragments telling about the event and insertions, reasoning author; sometimes the text is preceded by a comment from the editor (eg: We are in the assembly hall. I see that the rescuers have already appeared. The rescuer is now attaching the ladder).

 Interview (informational). A genre that exists in a dialogical form - oral or written (recorded conversation; in this case, the written text conveys some signs of spontaneous oral speech, as evidenced, in particular, by interjections, colloquial vocabulary, incomplete sentences, picking up cues, repeating questions, etc.) . The journalist conducts a dialogue with the person answering his questions. The genre allows you to introduce the reader to the life and views of the person he is interested in, and present the material in a lively and interesting way. The dialogical form facilitates the perception of the material. An informational interview provides answers to questions about the details of the event. Interviews in which a person’s characteristics are given in parallel with a discussion of various significant problems are also popular. Often the interview is preceded by an introduction that briefly outlines the situation in which the interview is being conducted; information about the person being interviewed is provided.

 Report.

 Review. A journalist speaks on behalf of a team, organization, party, etc.

Analytical - give analysis. These are the genres:

 Analytical interview. Contains an extensive dialogue about problem: Journalist asks questions about the creature Problems, the interlocutor answers.

 Article. A genre that presents the results of a fairly serious study of an event or problem. The main feature of the genre is the logical presentation of the material, reasoning: from any statement to its justification. Syntactic features: conjunctions and introductory words are used to denote a logical connection. Lexical features: there are terms and words with an abstract meaning. But reasoning can be emotionally colored. This genre is characterized by a combination of bookish and colloquial evaluative vocabulary, the use of short sentences, etc. The article may include various inserts: descriptions of significant events, mini-interviews, etc.

 Review - review of a work of art, film, etc.

 A comment.

 Review.

 Correspondence. A genre that talks not about a single fact, as in a newsreel, but about a number of facts that are analyzed, their reasons are clarified, their assessment is given, and conclusions are drawn. Compared to a chronicle note, in correspondence the volume of reported material expands, the nature of the presentation changes: more diverse language means are used, and an individual style of writing appears.

Artistic and journalistic genres. These are a kind of hybrid genres that combine features of journalistic and literary-artistic styles:

 Feature article. A genre that requires a figurative, concrete presentation of a fact or problem. Essays can be:

- problematic (events are included in the presentation as a reason for reasoning);

- portrait;

- travel (description of the trip);

- event-based (story about the event).

The essay must convincingly combine expressively conveyed events, convincing images of characters, and evidence-based reasoning. People, events and problems are presented in the light of the author's emotional assessment.

 Feuilleton - a newspaper or magazine article on a topical topic, ridiculing or condemning any shortcomings, ugly phenomena (for example: “Letters to Auntie” by M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin, feuilleton poem by N. A. Nekrasov “Newspaper”, etc. ).

 Pamphlet - a topical journalistic work of a sharply satirical nature, created for the purpose of socio-political denunciation of someone or something (for example: individual chapters of “Travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow” by A. N. Radishchev, “Letter to Gogol” by V. G. Belinsky , “I Can’t Be Silent” by L.N. Tolstoy). Etc.

Substyles of journalistic style:

official analytical;

information and analytical;

reporting;

feuilleton;

rally, etc.

General features of the journalistic style:

The most important feature is a combination of two functions of language: the message function (= information function) and the influence function. The speaker resorts to a journalistic style when he needs not only to convey information, but also to make an impact on the addressee (often mass). The addressee conveys facts and expresses his attitude towards them. The addressee feels that the journalist is not an indifferent recorder of events, but an active participant in them, selflessly defending his beliefs. Journalism is called upon to actively intervene in what is happening, create public opinion, persuade, and agitate.

The most important style-forming features of the journalistic style are evaluativeness and emotionality. Since the issues that the journalist raises (ethical conflicts, human rights, economic policy of the state, etc.) concern millions of people, it is impossible to write about these issues in dry language. Journalism borrows evaluative means from other styles (mainly colloquial and artistic).

But if for maximum impact on the addressee the journalistic style needs expressiveness, then for the speed and accuracy of transmitting information it needs accuracy, logic, formality, standardization. The standardization of speech in this case is that the journalist uses frequent linguistic means, stable speech patterns (clichés) (eg: warm support, lively response, sharp criticism, pluralism of opinions, active life position, radical changes, on the other side of the barricades).

Speech standardization ensures:

 for the addressee (journalist) - speed in preparing information (the addressee shows particular interest in the latest events, so it is necessary to prepare the material very quickly);

 for the recipient - easier and faster assimilation of information (by skimming through a publication full of very familiar expressions, the reader can grasp the meaning without wasting time and effort).

Thus, the combination of expression and standard is the most important feature of the journalistic style.

Depending on the genre, expression comes to the fore (eg: pamphlet, feuilleton), then the standard (eg: newspaper article, newsreel).

Since works of journalistic style are addressed to a wide range of readers, the main criterion for selecting linguistic means in them is general availability these funds. Publicists should not use highly specialized terms, dialects, slang words, complicated syntactic structures that are incomprehensible to readers, should not resort to too abstract imagery, etc.

Journalistic style is not closed, but open language system , so that journalists can freely refer to elements of other styles: conversational, artistic, scientific. Thus, in the journalistic style, elements of different styles interact quite freely.

In journalistic works, it is of great importance author's style - a style of writing characteristic of a particular journalist.

In the newspaper-journalistic style, the narration is always conducted in the first person. It is typical for journalism coincidence of author and narrator , which directly addresses the reader with his thoughts, feelings, and assessments. This is the power of journalism.

At the same time, in each specific text the journalist creates author's image through which he expresses his attitude to reality. The image of the author as a compositional speech category can vary and change its form in relation to the genre, for example:

IN review the journalist speaks on behalf of the team, organization, party, constructing a “collective image” of the narrator;

IN feuilleton, pamphlet This is a conventional image of an ironic, irreconcilable, practically minded narrator.

But, no matter what genre we are talking about, the author’s position, in general, always coincides with the views and assessments of a real journalist presenting the material he has obtained to readers. This, in particular, inspires the reader’s trust in the journalist and his material, respect for the journalist for his personal position, for his sincerity and concern.

The journalistic style uses: monologue speech (mainly in analytical genres), dialogue (for example, in interviews), direct speech.

At the morphological level, there are relatively few journalistically colored means. Here, first of all, we can note the stylistically significant morphological forms of various parts of speech. For example, the journalistic style is characterized by the use of the singular noun in the plural sense: Russian people have always been distinguished by their understanding and endurance; this proved ruinous for the British taxpayer and so on.

A particular feature of the journalistic style is the use of uncountable nouns in the plural form: conversations, freedoms, moods, circles, searches, etc. In some genres of journalism, nouns are used in the plural and with a special meaning. For example, the noun power is used in the sense of ‘a set of persons vested with supreme powers’ (city authorities), freedom - with the meaning of specification (political freedoms).

Among the features of the journalistic style is the frequency of imperative forms of the verb. They are a style-forming feature in appeals and appeals: People of the planet, get up, boldly go forward! Promote social justice!; Dear readers! Send your suggestions, wishes and tasks to the editor.

The imperative mood of the verb is also used as a means of activating the attention of the interlocutor: look, let's think, don't miss, etc.: Remember what the president said a few days ago... Fly Aeroflot planes, huh?

There are in the journalistic style, although rarely, rhetorically elevated forms of nouns of the 3rd declension singular in the instrumental case: power, life, blood, etc. (cf.: power, life, blood). Participial formations in -omy (led, driven, carried, etc.) are also considered to be journalistically colored.

The morphological features of the journalistic style lie in the sphere of statistical laws, that is, there are certain forms that are more often used in this particular style and therefore become its “morphological feature.” For example, according to research by B. N. Golovin, the frequency of using the genitive case in the journalistic style is extremely high - 36% (in the style of fiction - 13%). These are usages such as pluralism of opinions, time for change, minister of trade, holding a conference, renunciation of military force, package of proposals, price reform, way out of the economic crisis. A study of the frequency of use of verb tense forms shows that the journalistic style is characterized by the present and past tense. Moreover, in terms of the use of present tense forms, this style occupies a middle position between scientific and official business. Obviously, this is explained by the fact that journalism emphasizes the “momentary” nature of the events described, which is why the present tense is used: April 3 begins the visit of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland to Minsk; The concert season opens in two weeks; Writer Viktor Astafiev does not like noisy cities and lives as a recluse in his native village of Ovsyanka near Krasnoyarsk (from newspapers).

The past tense form here is more frequent compared to official business and scientific speech and less frequent than in the language of fiction: The current theatrical season at the Dresden State Opera ended with great success. Half a million Dresden residents, guests of this beautiful city from dozens of countries around the world were able to attend opera and ballet performances during this time; Events unfolded with lightning speed (from the newspapers).

In the journalistic style, the most frequent negative particles are not and neither, the particle is in the intensifying function, colloquial particles, after all, even, only, etc. Since the journalistic style as a whole is distinguished by an abundance of abstract concepts and provisions, the “load” of derivative prepositions in it increases as more “concrete” (compared to non-derivatives), and most importantly - unambiguous indicators of certain relationships: in the area, to the side, on the basis, in the course, as, on the basis, on the way, along the way, in the spirit, in name, in the light, in the interests of, taking into account, along the line, etc.: In this regard, a lot remains to be done in the light of the tasks put forward by significant changes in life; One can, of course, attribute this to the particulars of the war, as we did earlier in relation to prisoners of war, without even giving an approximate number; During a detailed conversation, a common opinion was expressed that with the growing role of the parliaments of our countries in solving fundamental problems of public life, greater opportunities are opening up for enriching their cooperation (from newspapers).

The journalistic style is marked by a number of syntactic features. It contains many expressive constructions that are absent in official business speech and extremely rare in scientific speech. For example, rhetorical questions: At this decisive moment, will the Russian hand hold out? (L. Leonov); How much does it take to see the sky in diamonds? (S. Kondratov), ​​the question-and-answer form of presentation is an effective form of enlivening speech, a kind of “dialogue with the addressee”: Did Pushkin endlessly express his love for the people? No, he wrote for the people (R. Gamzatov), ​​repetitions (or the so-called false pleonasm): Those who move forward to prosperity and abundance win, those who clearly see the future day of history win; overcomes the “pressure of life” (A.N. Tolstoy), exclamatory sentences: - What are you doing! After all, you are breeding murderers! After all, here is a classic example of your own monstrous needlework! (S. Kondratov). In addition, in journalistic speech one can often find various kinds of divisions of the text, i.e. such constructions when some structural part, being connected in meaning with the main text, is isolated - positionally and intonationally - and is located either in preposition (segmentation) , or in a postposition (parcelation): Land reform - what is its goal?; New parties, parliamentary factions and Soviets - which of them today will be able to exercise power in such a way that it is not a decoration or a declaration, but actually influences the improvement of our lives?; Today, the country has a situation where there is no product that is not in short supply. What led to this? Where is the exit?; A person was always handsome if his name sounded proud. When I was a fighter. When I was a discoverer. When I dared. When you didn’t give in to difficulties and didn’t fall to your knees in the face of trouble (from newspapers).

The journalistic style (as opposed to the scientific and official business style) is characterized by the frequent use of inverse word order. Here, the actualization of logically significant members of the proposal is actively used: New forms of management were proposed by Arkhangelsk entrepreneurs together with the management of the correctional labor institutions. The exceptions were enterprises in the mining industry; The villagers, who arrived on the eve of the sowing season with fertilizers from Belarusian chemists, were hastily sent back to Soligorsk; After the cessation of hostilities in the Iraqi capital, the situation is gradually returning to normal; The army is at war with nature (from newspapers).

In the stylistic system of the modern Russian language, the journalistic style occupies an intermediate position between colloquial, on the one hand, and official business and scientific style, on the other.

T.P. Pleschenko, N.V. Fedotova, R.G. Taps. Stylistics and culture of speech - Mn., 2001.

The journalistic style is called the official style of the media (mass media), including reports, notes, interviews, etc. This style is more often used in written speech, less often in oral forms of the same reports or public speeches of political and public figures .

Examples of journalistic style:.

The general features of this style include:

• emotionality and imagery of speech - to create the necessary atmosphere;
• evaluativeness and confidence - for interest;
• logic of presentation based on irrefutable facts - to give the speech credibility and information content;
• call of readers (listeners) to action and public accessibility;
• easy and clear presentation.

We will talk about which language means you should not use when working on a book in the corresponding article.

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