Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of the ironic journalistic discourse used by Andrei Kolesnikov, a special correspondent for the newspaper «Kommersant». The research material includes printed journalist media texts created in the genre of an ironic report, A. Kolesnikov is one of the founders of this genre. The article considers irony as an obligatory element of many discourses, including journalism, as a way of journalist’s worldview. The key concept of the undertaken research is the concept of authorial intention proposed by N.I. Klushina. It is noted that three leading intentions of the main types of media discourse interact in a special way – information (information discourse), persuasion (journalistic discourse), entertainment (entertainment discourse) in the ironic journalistic discourse. The article emphasizes that the ideological dominants of these discourses in the ironic journalistic discourse interact forming symbiosis of information, worldview ideologies and entertaining, paradoxical facts. The article identifies and analyzes frequency language means and techniques for creating comic and ironic effects in the modern journalistic media text in general and in the texts by A. Kolesnikov in particular. The author proposes a methodology for studying the representation of intentional categories of interpretation, evaluativeness and tonality in media texts, draws conclusions about the influence and interaction of the basic intentions of media discourse and an ironic journalist’s authorial intentions as an established trend in modern journalistic discursive practices.

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