Grammatical-stylistic Adaptation of Journalistic Text in Accordance with the Communicative-pragmatic Orientation to the Addressee (Based on Articles by V.G. Korolenko)

Abstract

Mahmood Hemin Tahir Mahmood. (Elets State University of I.A. Bunin, Elets, Russian Federation)

Publicist is able to convey the essence and emotional aspect of certain phenomena of reality to the audience- (he/she) is a symbolic figure of any era. During the radical historical and socio-political period of changes, personality of the journalist (publicist) socially and psychologically becomes conditioned, as they are in charge of the formation of public views. V.G. Korolenko was one of those Publicists, whose observations and reflections are relevant to date. Studying linguistic specificity of articles of the outstanding publicist reveals the canonical features of his idiostyle and priority stylistic devices, such as (dialogization, metaphorization, and the use of antithesis). The article explains the transformation of publicist’s traditional voice manner in a text, addressed not to prepared intelligent reader but to the simple peasant, who has no experience of rational analysis of socially meaningful text. Comparative analysis of the articles «domestic phenomenon» and «The Fall of royal power» can detect the start of the dialogue leveling, priority of grading and epithet as the stylistic devices in post-revolutionary period journalism of V.G Korolenko.

Key words: journalism, Korolenko, idiostyle, epithet, graduation.

DOI: 10.18522/1995-0640-2016-4-153-160