Evaluative units in periodical press at the beginning of the XXth century
Journal Title: Мова і міжкультурна комунікація - Year 2017, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
The article analyzes the semantic and stylistic categories of evaluation in the diachronic aspect. Central evaluation concepts in the language periodicals of the early XXth century are defined. Differentiation of language means in terms of content and expression is offered. Positively and negatively evaluative semantico-stylistic units of language are singled out. In terms of expression implicit and explicit forms of estimates are described. The expediency of studying the history of the literary language not as a list of political lexicon, but as an evaluation of categories, covering a diverse linguistic material. Functional evaluative functions of language units on all language levels are described. The article discovers emotional, expressive and neutral language units, which reveals the evaluation function in the context. The importance of influence of extralinguistic factors on the change in the scale of values and their reflection in the language of periodicals. Units closely related to the specific development of literary language, socio-political and cultural conditions of society, which in Ukrainian reality is constantly changing are estimated. The article makes it clear that evaluative functions of language units in periodicals match a certain historical era. Along with the change of the value scale and its reflection in language periodicals that have always been a powerful instrument of mass consciousness, the ideological and aesthetic principles of Ukrainian society are changing. Diachronic transformation of semantics reflects the value natural laws, regulation and artificial means of verbal expression. The time of newspaper texts can be clearly determined according to the semantics of language units. Every certain era left its mark on the pages of Ukrainian periodicals and in consciousness of society.
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Tetianа Anatoliivna Kots
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