PRAGMASTYLISTICS OF ONE-COMPOUND STRUCTURES IN THE LANGUAGE OF MODERN UKRAINIAN MASS MEDIA

Abstract

The article examines the stylistics and pragmatics of one-compound structures in the language of the Ukrainian press of the third decade of the 21st century. The stylistic specificity and updated meaning loads of the most common types of one-compound structures caused by the journalist’s intentions, the range of his pragmatic attitudes (doubt, confidence, objectivity, subjectivity, etc.) and the needs of public communication are characterized. Peculiarities of the communicative purpose, pragmatic potentials and implementation of one-compound structures in the language of the modern Ukrainian press are outlined. It was found that one-member sentences as a fairly common language tool of modern Ukrainian mass media are endowed with a range of functions and nuances. The proposed article analyzes various semantic and stylistic nuances of one-compound structures, correlated with the journalist’s pragmatic intentions, which made it possible to outline the depth of their potential in the non-standard plane of the media sphere. The dependence of the choice and structuring of one-compound structures on the genre differentiation of modern Ukrainian newspaper publications and communicative-pragmatic needs, which are often reflected in the journalist’s communicative intentions, the tonality of information presentation, the construction of the newspaper text according to the author’s communicative strategies, the reader’s level of perception and interpretive capabilities, is substantiated. It has been observed that the expressive and evaluative stylistic function, which is quite important mostly for artistic-journalistic and analytical genres, is often performed by those one-compound structures that undergo generalized figurative metaphorization due to the introduction of elements of conversational syntax. Instead, in the language of informational genres, impersonal one-compound structures with the meaning of ascertaining a fact, obligation, need to implement an action appear productive. It has been established that the pragmatic-stylistic specificity of the use of various types of one-compound structures in the language of Ukrainian newspapers of the third decade of the 21st century attests to an expressive national way of forming and expressing thoughts by syntactic means.