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.