EXPRESSIVENESS OF THE GERMAN PUBLICISTIC TEXT AT THE SYNTACTIC LEVEL

Abstract

In this article an attempt is made to identify the way journalists achieve expression of the subjective attitude of the reader to the subject of their message at the syntactic level. The purpose of the research is the systematic description of syntactic means that function in the German journalistic texts and are able to express the author’s emotional state, their subjective attitude to the described objects and phenomena of reality, as well as to influence the reader’s perception of them. The relevance of this study is due firstly to the active interest of researchers in the human factor in the language as a whole and secondly to an incomplete study of the functional-semantic features of the expressiveness category in the modern German journalism. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the complex attempt to describe the syntactic ways of expression and in the systematic description of the category of expressiveness in the modern German journalism. The research material are articles from the weekly German information and political magazine Der Spiegel of 2019, as well as its online versions. In the research the general scientific and linguistic methods were applied: the hypothetical-deductive, inductive, descriptive, as well as elements of the semantic-stylistic analysis and communicative-pragmatic analysis. The practical significance of the research consists in the possibility of applying its results in theoretical and practical courses on the style of the German language, pragmatics and text interpretation. The results of the research. The authors formulate the set of syntactic tools that are united by the functional sign of influence at the level of emotions in the journalistic text. Elliptical constructions, rhetorical questions, expressive inversions, parceled turns and various types of repeats serve as microsystems of the macrofield of expressiveness in journalism.

Keywords

• публицистика
• экспрессивность
• эллипсис
• вопрос-утверждение
• инверсия
• парцелляция
• повтор