THE USE OF VERB TENSES IN DIFFERENT STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS OF A FILM ANNOUNCEMENT

Abstract

The article analyzes the use of verb tenses in the structural parts of a film announcement. The film announcement has several structural-compositional, grammatical, lexical and stylistic features associated with a small volume and the combination of the function of informing with the function of influence, inducement to action. The relevance of the study relates to the fact that in the modern world there is a demand for effective delivery of information to the addressee by minimal means, as well as with the recently increased attention of linguists to the text as an instrument of influence on the addressee, capable of inducing him to active own actions. The collected material (150 texts of film announcements published on the Internet) allows to study both aspects. It is found that the film announcement consists of several obligatory and optional components, the obligatory being the following four parts: title, lead, main part and conclusion. By comparing and analyzing the verbs in the different structural components of the film announcement, it was concluded that verbs of all tenses are used in the film announcement, but the dominant tenses are identified in each of the structural parts: future tense forms in the title and lead, present tense forms in the main part, and past tense forms in the conclusion. The analysis has shown that the titles, which contain an element of the film’s plot, have no past tense verbs in their composition.