LEXICAL FEATURES OF ARTICLES ABOUT THE TEA WAY (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF THE INTERNET DISCOURSE OF THE RUSSIAN MEDIA)

Abstract

The article analyzes material of the Russian Internet discourse on the topic of the Great Tea Way. The authors examine articles from the point of view of lexical features. In each of the articles, the authors find different lexical features characteristic of the journalistic style. The researchers attribute the presence of lexemes reflecting accurate information, emotional and evaluative vocabulary, abbreviations, stable phrases, precedent names, artistic visual means to the striking lexical features of articles about the Tea Way. The work describes in detail lexical features identified in the articles and demonstrates this with examples. The research also focuses on articles published in different periods of the existence of the Tea Way. These articles more fully reflect the changes in the lexical features of journalistic texts.