SEMANTIC AND SYNTAX PARAMETRIZATION OF WEATHER FORECAST HEADINGS

Abstract

The heading as an element of meteorological discourse, implemented in the genre of weather forecast, reflects the specifics, which is based on several principles of information coverage. It is a combination of features of scientific, journalistic and artistic styles. The purpose of the research is the lexical and syntactic specificity of headings on Facebook. The object of the research is media heading and the subject of the research – its features in semantical and grammatical aspects. In the process of studying the weather forecasts headings following methods were used: descriptive method (to characterize meteolexemes), component analysis (to specify the semantics of the basic elements of the studied units) and quantitative calculations (to determine the frequency of meteolexemes and structures). The source base for the article was the headings of weather forecasts, represented on the Facebook page of the head of the Cherkasy Regional Center for Hydrometeorology V. Postryhan. The actual base is 300 of these units, recorded in the forecasts-reports from August 12, 2019 to January 31, 2022. The semantic specificity of headings is largely determined by the qualitative and quantitative parameters of used lexemes. The system of words to denote time is the most extensive. Within its limits the most frequent lexemes are singled out: names of seasons, months and days. Those that indicate the temperature parameters of the weather, precipitation and phenomena that specify the course of the weather in a certain period of time were quite active among the actual meteolexemes. Less active components in the headings are geortonyms that serve as chronomarkers of weather conditions. Weather forecast titles are formed as different types of syntactic constructions. Simple constructions prevail and reflect the main content. Complex sentences reflect the main idea of the forecast with certain details and are relatively rarely used. The prospects of the research lie within the lexical and stylistic parameterization of weather forecast headings.