Newspaper text as the object of linguistic research

Abstract

It is known that mass media play an important role in the life of so ciety and reflect public opinion, thereby contributing to the formation of the social orientation of people. In addition, the newspaper text is the object of linguistic research, since it is combined with other components of the media (magazines, radio, TV, online edition) and is a repeater of «linguistic flavor» of society. This is inherent in the universal qualities of newspaper text (mass, regularity and relevance of the information content, lack of social restrictions, territorial unlimitedness, etc.), which enable it to intervene actively in the process of normalization and processing of the literary language. This article provides an overview of research devoted to the newspaper text in which this phenomenon is seen with from lin guocognitive, psycholinguistic, linguopragmaticheskij, sociolinguistic and other positions.