SPECIFICITY OF CHINESE CONJUNCTIONS AND CONJUNCTION-BASED CONSTRUCTIONS IN NEWSLETTER TEXTS

Abstract

The article examines the conjunctions and conjunction-based constructions of the modern Chinese language from the point of view of the specifics of their use in the texts of news messages. The article presents both the general characteristics of these service parts of speech (simple and compound conjunctions, conjunction-based constructions), and their features in the context of sentences of real news messages of two types – newspaper texts from Internet sites and a television message. As a result of the analysis, the author reveals what function in the sentence and what relations (conditional, connecting, adversative, concessive, causal) are expressed by different conjunction constructions, as well as what expressive connotation can be expressed by conjunctions in the context of a news message and what is the effect impact on a mass audience.