Methods of reasoning in a journalistic text (On a material of essays Tatyana Tolstoy)

Abstract. Various artistic devices of argumentation are proved to be used in journalistic texts. The original way of expressing orectic argumentation by means of «transforming things» is peculiar to T. Tolstoy’s artistic journalism. The issue of historic progress is embodied in T. Tolstoy’s work with the help of the stylistic device of ironical argumentation: showing transformation of thing-symbol in time.