EXPRESSIVENESS OF TEXTS OF GERMAN PUBLICISTIC DISCOURSE AND LINGUISTIC MEANS OF ITS EXPRESSION

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the study of expression in various types of modern German publicistic discourse, namely in texts of argumentative, narrative, and descriptive types. The objective is to determine the level of expressiveness of various types of texts of German publicistic discourse and identifying linguistic means of expressing expression. As a result of the study, it is found that the level of expressiveness of a publicistic text of an influencing type increases if the argumentation in it is expressed explicitly and decreases when expressed implicitly. It is also revealed that modern publicistic discourse is characterized by a modification of the informative function of texts, as a result of which texts of the informative type acquire features of expressiveness and emotional evaluation along with texts of the influencing type. The leading linguistic means of enhancing the expressiveness of a text at the lexical level are the use of colloquial vocabulary and emotionally charged vocabulary with a negative or positive assessment. At the syntactic level these are the use of rhetorical questions, the direct form of the imperative, incomplete sentences and simple common sentences characteristic of the colloquial style of speech, which increases the degree of expressiveness and brevity of the test. At the stylistic level the expressiveness increases with the help of the use of stable and original metaphors, allusions to religious themes and the theme of art (cinema), phraseological units. The findings and results of the study can be used in further research devoted to the study of the implementation of expressiveness in texts of journalistic discourse, and can also find application in the practice of teaching the German language, in special courses and courses on linguistic text analysis.