Abstract
The paper examines the journalistic discourse as a linguistic phenomenon in the socio-cultural realities. The relevance of the study is determined by the great interest of linguistic science to the issues of cross-cultural communication and their significance in teaching English as a foreign language. The journalistic discourse is a peculiar phenomenon of linguistics because it reflects socio-cultural features of specific communication space; it creates a language picture of the world of a certain culture and society through the specific socio-cultural lexical units – realities. The main aim of the study is to examine, analyze, summarize and systematize socio-cultural linguistic resources as a means of creating and transmitting linguistic awareness, revealing the pragmatic aspects of their functioning in the journalistic discourse. In order to achieve this goal the following steps have been taken: 1) to study the characteristics of the journalistic discourse; 2) to determine the specific genres of the journalistic discourse of the English language periodicals and mass media on-line resources; 3) to investigate the cognitive and pragmatic features of the vocabulary functioning, which reflect the peculiarities of the English language context of the socio-cultural aspect of the journalistic discourse; 4) to categorize and analyze the thematic and typological groups of socio-cultural realities and study their functions in the context. The possible application of the obtained results is to develop the scientific and teaching facilities in the field of foreign language learning and translation.
Highlights
Journalistic discourse is a communicative and linguistic phenomenon which forms the idea of the language picture of the world
The scholarly novelty of this study lies in treating journalistic discourse as a socio-cultural linguistic phenomenon of modern communication space
To conclude, the issue of the journalistic discourse has a great relevance in the modern linguistics as a lingo-cultural phenomenon of the modern communicative field
Summary
Journalistic discourse is a communicative and linguistic phenomenon which forms the idea of the language picture of the world. The scholarly novelty of this study lies in treating journalistic discourse as a socio-cultural linguistic phenomenon of modern communication space. We approach this phenomenon thorough study of socio-cultural vocabulary in terms of modern cognitive science, pragmatic and translation. In order to achieve this goal we tried to solve the following problems: 1) to study the characteristics of journalistic discourse; 2) to determine the specifics of journalistic discourse of Englishlanguage periodicals and mass media online resources; 3) to investigate the cognitive and pragmatic features of the functioning of vocabulary which reflect the peculiarities of the English-speaking context of sociocultural journalistic discourse; 4) to analyse and characterise socio-cultural units of journalistic discourse according to their thematic and typological groups.
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