GENRE AND SYNTAX: ON THE PROBLEM OF USE OF BISUBSTANTIVE SENTENCES IN THE NEWSPAPER TEXT

Abstract

In the article, the function of the bisubstantive sentences in texts of different genres is investigated with the method of the comparative analysis. The analysis is made on the materials of the newspaper «Komsomolskaya Pravda» (the 70-80s years of 20th and the beginning of 21st centuries). It is shown that the main objective of using of the bisubstantive sentences in analytical genres (in an editorial of a newspaper) was the formation of an aim, mandatory for execution; influence on the masses and appeal to the masses. Bisubstantive sentences in the papers of the pre-perestroika period were used for propaganda purposes as a means of expressing the slogan, appeal, and as a way to formulate goals and objectives of the communist party. In modern newspapers, these functions of the bisubstantive sentences stopped being the dominant, though they are still present in political and advertising discourse. In the artistic and journalistic genres, bisubstantive sentences retain their activity and are used in different ways. On the examples of the bisubstantive sentences with the taxonomic value used by V. Peskov in his essays and articles about the nature a variety of shapes and shades of meaning of this type of sentences is shown.