FUNCTIONAL PECULIARITIES OF THE KEY WORD REPETITION IN THE LANGUAGE OF MODERN UKRAINIAN NEWSPAPERS
Journal Title: Scientific journal «International Journal of Philology» - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 292
Abstract
Repetition as one of the most powerful means of stylistic syntax has repeatedly appeared the object of scientific research of domestic and foreign linguists. Nevertheless, the question remained about the functional features of the repetition of key words in the texts of a journalistic style. Given the fact that such a repetition is typical on the pages of the newspaper periodicals, the study of its functional features in the language of modern Ukrainian newspapers is on time. In modern Ukrainian linguistics, the specific functioning of the repetition of key words was traced on the material of certain artistic texts [2] and in the texts-announcements [3]. I. Sokolova defines the repetition of the key words as a means of attracting the attention of the recipient to the subject of the message, which helps the reader to comprehend information [3, 99-101]. N. Sovtis among the key characteristics of the keywords distinguishes "frequency, contextual predestination, informativeness, increased semantic activity" [2, 252]. The importance of the repetition of key words in the text drew attention V. Kukharenko, noting "if the word at one time in the artistic context acquires additional meanings (meanings), then when repeating this word in different contexts you can expect a certain accumulation of contextual stratifications" [1, 48- 49]. In the language of the contemporary periodicals under study, we observe the repetition of the key words throughout the text, which ensures its semantic connectivity. Keywords, which are through the elements of a journalistic text, perform predominantly a truly representative pragmatic stylistic function. Expressive in the texts studied is a combination of synonymous (everywhere, everywhere, and in all) and antonymic (strange war, real war) of repetitions of key words. Aesthetic function is seen in the use of a keyword-symbol. Common in the language of the modern Ukrainian press is the antonymic retelling of the key words that contain semantic strain in the contextual difference between them. Antonymic repetition is based on the opposition of repetitive components, while reinforcing the basic idea of the text. One of the most widely used linguistic means that contributes to a thorough understanding of the text is the selection and repetition of two non-related keywords at a time. Repetitive lexical elements in such contexts permeate the essence of paraphrased unities, give them deep meaning, emphasize the importance of the letters set by the author. In the analyzed journalistic texts dominated by nominative repeating components (stone, passers-by, place of detention, witness, testimony, politics, propaganda), attributive (not alien, ancient, modern, cold, etc.) and predicate: (to destroy, be human, etc.). ) In some cases, the repetition of key components occurs at the semantic level, since repetitive, in essence, are not lexemes, but the phrase and their synonymous correspondences, for example, "qualitative" spectator – a true connoisseur of theatrical art. Texts that have the simultaneous repetition of several key components are full of deep ideas and motives that express these repetitive components, often forming a system of artistic language in journalism, expressed by metaphors and allegories: not a cold witness, stone, etc. A special enhancement of the influence on the reader's perception of the text, which consists in the dynamic accumulation of the main idea of the statement, is a three-fold identical repetition of the key words, which emphasizes the importance of the meaning that the text acquires thanks to the repetitive word. In modern Ukrainian periodicals, such a repetition is a fairly widespread phenomenon, because it is used by journalists to emphasize specific elements of the text that contribute to a deeper understanding of the content of the statement or the emergence of appropriate impressions, which affects the emotional and sensory sphere of perception. The analyzed lexical-syntactic constructions contain mostly repetitive signs of different phenomena and processes (rarely – nominatives or predicates) and perform mostly informative function. Quite distinct in the texts studied is the repetition of keywords in conjunction with syntactic parallelism, which determines the focus of the reader on the content of the entire statement. The material of the texts explored gives grounds to assert that the repetition of the keywords is typical in the language of the modern Ukrainian press. In any scientific context, it is a powerful means of semantic connectivity. The tendency to use a triple identical repetition, antonymic and synonymic repetition of key words, the simultaneous selection of two key words within a single fragment of a text, a combination of lexical repetition with syntactic parallelism has been observed. Among the functional features, the use of repetition in order to distinguish lexemes with in-depth content load, promoting the focus of the reader on the content of expression, influence on the emotional-sensory and mental sphere of reception of the text by the recipient are determined. The prospect of further scientific research in the study of the structural and semantic characteristics of the repetition on the lexical-syntactical level of the language of Ukrainian newspaper texts is seen.
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I Horobets
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