LEXICAL PECULIARITIES OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN MODERN RUSSIAN NEWS TEXTS

The article considers a defi nite range of semantic and stylistic features of news texts in Russia. Some changes in the language of news texts observed at present are described. The role of metaphors and phraseological units in news texts is shown. The article notes a suffi ciently rare use of phraseological units in news texts, most of all in quotations and headlines where their functional-stylistic and emotional-expressive meanings are enormous.

Authors
Publisher
Международная академия наук и высшего образования
Language
English
Pages
67-70
Status
Published
Year
2013
Organizations
  • 1 Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Keywords
political metaphors; phraseological units; precedent texts; headlines; background knowledge; news texts
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