IMPACT FUNCTION IN MODERN GERMAN PUBLICISTIC DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article reveals the results of an analysis of implementation of the function of influence in modern German publicistic discourse (GPD). Based on the study of the texts of high-quality German newspaper and journal publicistic, the linguistic means of influencing public opinion used in the GPD are established. The authors consider all types of perlocutionary texts found in this genre (descriptive, narrative and argumentative) and found that the leading one is argumentative. The functions of descriptive and narrative fragments in the text are also revealed. Such a consideration of perlocutionary texts as using functional-communicative and textual methods in the cognitive aspect made it possible for the first time to objectively establish the functional features of heterogeneous text fragments. The theoretical significance of the work is determined by its contribution to the theory of text and style on the material of the German language. The practical value lies in the possibility of using the results of the study in the courses of text linguistics and stylistics of the German language, when writing term papers and theses.