Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem (Apr 2018)

ELLIPSIS AS ONE OF THE WAYS OF IMPLEMENTING EXPRESSIVE SYNTAX IN MODERN JOURNALISTIC INTERVIEWS

  • Natalja Nikolaevna Chaiko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12731/2077-1770-2018-4-166-175
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 4
pp. 166 – 175

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The article is devoted to the elliptical constructions traditionally considered to be emotionally expressive. The subject of analysis is the modern German publicistic texts – interviews. It is generally believed that ellipsis, on the one hand, is inherent in colloquial speech, on the other hand, it is widely used in oratorical speech and fiction. The choice of the text of the interview genre as a research material allows us to analyze this stylistic figure in a new way. The author aims to determine the emotional and expressive potential of elliptic structures among various means of syntactic expression. The study of factual material was carried out by a descriptive method of linguistic analysis. The analysis showed frequent use of different types of elliptic sentence. Elliptical compression in headlines and pre-headlines intrigues the reader, getting them to continue reading. It also gives expressiveness to the entire publication. Ellipsis is also common in interviews, as it helps to create a lively dialogue with the reader, laconism and a special rhythmic formulation of the statement. The results of the study can be used in theoretical courses on the stylistics of the German language, as well as in special courses on the discourse of the modern German press.

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