Keyword: «journalistic text»

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.

The paper presents a quantitative description of the phraseology in E. I. Nosov’s journalistic texts (phraseological units of low-frequency, mid-frequency and high-frequency) and the analysis of functional and stylistic peculiarities of the author’s use of set phrases.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the emotive specifics of the publicistic text. It is considered as a two-level structure, which has its own features of language representation. The author identifies several types of interaction between background and tonal emotions and gives.