Genre Information Research Articles

SOME THEMATIC GROUPS OF MINOR GENRE FORMS OF INFORMATION. SYNTACTIC FEATURES

The tendency to increase the speed of transmission of relevant information in specific genre information units is growing nowadays. The article attempts to identify and describe the main syntactic features of some thematic groups of minor genre forms of information (hereinafter referred to as MGFI). It is noted that, acting as only one part of the intonation structure in the sentence, vocative structures of minor genre forms mostly do not require additional disclosure of their content in the context. We single out non-textual existing vocatives belonging to the MGFI of the modern Ukrainian language, which are used in order to attract the attention of an addressee of speech, to encourage them to perceive speech. Syntactic features of genre forms of information related to the communicative component of the information message: announcements, appeals, prohibitions, information distribution and encouragement to perform an action or a requirement not to perform it in any case. The study deals with the structure and functions of announcements of different types as one of the types of minor genre forms of information, their features as syntactic structures. The structural and morphological features of vocative addresses in minor genre forms of periodical information are also analysed.

Прагмалингвистические особенности документных текстов информативного типа в военном деловом дискурсе (на материале документов Великой Отечественной войны)

This article describes genre-forming features of informative documentary texts of military discourse, such as communicative goal, author’s image, addressee’s image, event content, factor of the future, and factor of the past. The following terms are studied here: documentary text, speech genre, and informative speech genres. The documentary text is considered as a kind of а speech genre, realized in writing. In the course of the research, the most frequent informative documents of military discourse (Great Patriotic War period) were selected, i.e. summary, dispatch, and report. Having analysed the definitions of the abovementioned speech genres and the corresponding documentary texts, the author was able to determine their communicative goals, single out the main (inform) and additional (ask, suggest) genre-forming intentions. It was revealed that the speech addressee in informative speech genres can be both an executive officer and a group of persons, information about them (detailed or not) being presented in the initial and final formulas of the document. The author’s image in the main texts of documents is either implicit or manifested with the help of performative verbs. The speech addressee is abstract and is only indicated in the initial formula of the document, in most cases by the person’s position. Informative documents should meet the following requirements: impersonal and multi-event nature, presentation of the informative component by events of the past and the present, creation of a futural perspective in texts with incentive intentions. The analysis of the factor of the past showed that the summary and the analytical report are initiative genres of written communication, while the dispatch and the operations report are reactive speech genres. Having studied the factor of the future parameter, the author concluded that informative speech genres underlie other informative and directive genres. For instance, dispatches and reports are created on the basis of summaries, whose main intention is to inform. The texts of dispatches and reports, having additional intentions of asking and suggesting, form the basis for directive documentary texts.

Item Genre-Based Users Similarity Measure for Recommender Systems

A technique employed by recommendation systems is collaborative filtering, which predicts the item ratings and recommends the items that may be interesting to the user. Naturally, users have diverse opinions, and only trusting user ratings of products may produce inaccurate recommendations. Therefore, it is essential to offer a new similarity measure that enhances recommendation accuracy, even for customers who only leave a few ratings. Thus, this article proposes an algorithm for user similarity measures that exploit item genre information to make more accurate recommendations. This algorithm measures the relationship between users using item genre information, discovers the active user’s nearest neighbors in each genre, and finds the final nearest neighbors list who can share with them the same preference in a genre. Finally, it predicts the active-user rating of items using a definite prediction procedure. To measure the accuracy, we propose new evaluation criteria: the rating level and reliability among users, according to rating level. We implement the proposed method on real datasets. The empirical results clarify that the proposed algorithm produces a predicted rating accuracy, rating level, and reliability between users, which are better than many existing collaborative filtering algorithms.

Trends in the Art Criticism Development in the Context of Modern Art Market (on the Example of Kyiv Situation)

In modern realities, the degree of culture dependence on economic factors is consistently high. It is confirmed by the art world that is more and more oriented towards the global art market, which sphere of interest is commerce that moreover envisages the establishment of communication and regulation of the relationship “artist-consumer / recipient”. Consequently, the art market (despite the differences in the logic of art dealings: the art market considers it as the means of profit making; criticism tends to clarify the artistic value according to the time period) has functions identical to artistic criticism, in particular, sociocultural and regulatory. They provide for / support the formation of the artistic expression value, its actualization and functioning in the cultural sphere of our time and, as a result, interest and the formation of demand for certain art practices and names. In addition, art criticism and the contemporary art market have a certain influence on the artists themselves: judgments of art criticism, the demand for some art practices and names in the art market are to particular extent guides for authors (those who do not exclude themselves from the art market), factors of influence on further transformations in their creative activity. These circumstances, firstly, allow us to consider the art market not only in the economic field (as an economic category), but also as an interdisciplinary phenomenon of great importance for culture; secondly, it rises the practical value of exploring the interaction issue of these institutions / subjects of the cultural process (art market and art criticism), the degree of their interdependence and disclosure, dictated by the art market changes in the art criticism activities, which will determine the role of the art market and art criticism in sociocultural field. It is necessary to note that the main trends in the development of art criticism in the context of the contemporary art market are its growing dependence on commercial factors, marketing, the significant decrease in serious non-biased materials expressing the independence of their authors’ views (detailed analysis and professional interpretation of the artistic processes). This niche is being actively filled by amateur publications, information genres and advertising materials. The depicted situation creates the preconditions for providing a significant role in the artists’ selection and attraction to the commercial sphere, and, finally, for the public opinion formation to the art business representatives; dominance in the news field of information highlighted from the favourable perspective for the main players of the art market, which satisfies their interests in their own promotion and contributes to their hegemony in the art space. This situation is caused, among others, by the lack of financial independence of the art criticism in Kyiv and it lack of demand at the national art market.

ТИПОВІ ПОМИЛКИ У ВЖИВАННІ ДІЄСЛІВНИХ ФОРМ ЯК НАСЛІДОК ПРОГАЛИН У ШКІЛЬНІЙ ОСВІТІ

Verb is the most important part of speech because it is the syntactic and communicative center of the sentence. So the verb form errors is an important problem of culture of language. The mediaproducts (215 texts of different information genres) of first year students from the Institute of Journalism of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv was analyzed. A classification of tipical errors of verbs forms was suggested. Gaps in the school education (on the material of schools textbooks was analyzed) are the main cause of the following verb errors: verb-conjunction "to be" in the Present, verb nouns, passive verbs, passive participle, active participle, impersonal verbs, redundant constructs, lexical errors. The topics to supplement the school program of language was suggested. It is recommended to omit the verb-conjunction in the present tense; prefer verb forms, not nouns; use active constructions, not passive ones; not to use active present participles; the instrumental case of nouns should be used in the instrumental, not in the subjective sense; use adjectives as a predicate to describe the subject; not to use stationery and tautological constructions; distinguish the meaning of Ukrainian and Russian tokens.

Evolution of Worldwide Cable Television and Rating Systems: A Case Study of Pakistan

All around the world, advertisers select a medium that has higher consumer reach and for this context television and cable, T.V is one of the top priorities. Since the advent of cable television globally, this medium has made this process much more convenient because it has vastly available in almost every household and offers content to all age groups and genders. It contains all sorts of information and entertainment genres such as cartoons for children, food, fashion, and entertainment for women, sports and news for men, and religious channels for people who are interested in religion. The ease of use in its operation and the subsequent rise in viewership have also made it a medium on which competition is stiff. Every channel using this medium is in the race to achieve the title of most-watched television broadcaster and to be in the limelight to attract and air the most amount of advertising which translates into higher income and place for advertisers for their products. This demand and supply have given rise to the TRP wars and start the race of No 1. This research paper discusses the worldwide evolution of television and cable TV, elaborates about TRP, deliberating the rating framework of Television channels especially in Pakistan, also about the institutions that award these ratings, also about People meter and its working.

Мовленнєві жанри в мовній освіті НУШ як перспектива реалізації риторичного аспекту української мови

The article outlines the semantic features of the Ukrainian language rhetorical aspect in general secondary education in terms of implementing the principle of text-centrism and the formation of students' speech and rhetorical skills. The specifics of rhetorical education of language teachers are revealed and the parameters of their readiness for teaching students of speech genres are determined, as well as the methodological features of this activity in basic language education are described. The requirements to be a discourse personality capable of realizing linguodidactic discourse in the language education of the New Ukrainian School, and to be competent in the implementation of pedagogical communication genres are substantiated. The model curriculum in the Ukrainian language in the context of mastering speech genres with the use of different types of students’ educational activities (organizational, cognitive, speech, text) and focusing on the formation of expected meta-subject results in accordance with the State Standard of Basic Secondary Education was analyzed. The definition of the «speech genre» concept in linguodidactics is given, a proposal is made for the linguopragmatic transformation of the established classification of speech genres (information genres, genres of influence, information and influential genres). Examples of exercises and learning tasks for mastering speech genres at the Ukrainian language lessons at the adaptation stage of language education in the New Ukrainian School are given.

Combining User-Genre Preference Information with Neural Collaborative Filtering

In this paper, the user-genre preference information is introduced into collaborative filtering (CF) to deal with the sparsity which CF suffers from. This work classifies items by genre information, it applies neural collaborative filtering model in each category and combines all models together to get a final prediction. These experiments in the work are conducted on well-known dataset in which hit ratio and Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG) are introduced into the evaluation. It indicates that our model has fast performance growth and good results.

Genre forms of modern Ukrainian media criticism

The research of the media criticism segment of Ukraine is relevant in the framework of the modern information space and the need to regulate the media. Important for the research are its genre forms, that allow to systematize and diversify critical materials. The subject of the research are media-critical editions “Telecritica”, “Detector Media”, “Media Sapiens”, “Media Lab” and “Mediacritica”. The purpose of the article is to analyze informational, analytical and artistic-journalistic genres of media-critical publications of Ukraine. The system method, methods of comparison, analysis and synthesis are used in the article. For the first time, genre aspects of the leading Ukrainian media critical resources, features of their content with regard to the transformation processes within journalism and criticism are considered. The article deals with the specifics of implementing information genres of media criticism (note, interview) which are presented mainly in classical forms. Emphasis is placed on analytics, the publications of which most often articulate the problems of objectivity and bias of information, public trust in the media, the spread of fakes and commissioned materials. With the help of analytical genres, media criticism brings to the level of discussion of topical issues of mass communication beyond a narrow circle of specialists. The most popular in all Ukrainian media-critical publications genre of the article is analyzed, which most aligns with the main goals of media-criticism, to promote neutralization and correction of negative manifestations in the media, to orient the audience in the information space. The article also considers the analytical genres of review and overview, which testify to the values ​​of media criticism. Separately, we are talking about artistic and journalistic genres (feuilleton, pamphlet), which today are less represented in journalism, at the same time they have become the basis for writing media-critical blogs. Emphasis is placed on the process of shifting genre boundaries, diffusion of genres, including in media criticism. Accordingly, the genre spectrum of media criticism is conditional and involves constant changes. As a result, it is noted that the media industry in Ukraine has a diverse and widely represented by genre forms critical reception. At the same time, media criticism is at the stage of forming a well-established methodology, in contrast to art criticism. Genre forms of media criticism do not go beyond journalism, but have the specifics of writing and directing materials. Emphasis is placed on the fact that a promising area is the study of genre transformations in media criticism.

The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association Call for Papers

Previous articleNext article FreeThe Wordsworth-Coleridge Association Call for Papers Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, January 6–9, 2022PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreThe Wordsworth-Coleridge Association is an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association that meets annually during the MLA Convention. Along with an annual festive lunch, the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association is allowed to propose up to two scholarly sessions. For the MLA Convention in Washington, DC, proposals are invited on the following topic.Romanticism and DataWhat was “data”—and what were data—in the Romantic era? According to the OED, a “datum” is “an item of (chiefly numerical) information, esp. one obtained by scientific work” and “something given or granted; something known or assumed as fact, and made the basis of reasoning,” both senses being in use during the period. This call is open to: different kinds of data (e.g., bibliographic, colonial, demographic, fiscal, historical, industrial, literary, personal, scientific, sensory, slave trade); techniques, media, forms, and formats of datafication; data collection projects from the period, big and small; critiques of data and dataveillance; Romantic epistemologies, epistemological hierarchies, facts, truth, and negative capabilities; documentalities, informational genres, information management, and categorizations; computational approaches (paper or electronic) to Romantic-era texts or Romantic studies over the years. Papers that explore the relationship between literature and data are especially welcome.Please submit abstracts (maximum 300 words) by March 15, 2021, to James McKusick ([email protected]). The MLA requires (in addition to an abstract) a brief biographical statement (circa 300 words), written in the third person, including the presenter’s name, title, affiliation, final degree institution and date, scholarly interests, and publications. Particularly relevant are scholarship and publications that directly relate to the proposed session topic. Please include some persuasive points about the importance, significance, and contribution of the proposed presentation and any previous work you have done relating to the session topic.All MLA program participants must be members of the Modern Language Association by April 1, 2021. For information on the MLA Convention, go to http://www.mla.org/convention.All subscribers to The Wordsworth Circle are members of the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. Essays selected for presentation at MLA will be considered for publication in The Wordsworth Circle. Please address any questions regarding the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association to the President of the Association:Dean James McKusick (e-mail: [email protected])Honors CollegeUniversity of Missouri–Kansas City5030 Cherry StreetKansas City, MO 64110 Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Wordsworth Circle Volume 52, Number 1Winter 2021 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/714667 © 2021 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Комуністична пропаганда в контексті суцільної колективізації та Голодомору 1932–1933 рр.

Introduction. The totalitarian state of the USSR used constant violence against a person and total“brainwashing” to ensure a monopoly of power and ideologe. The promotion of communist ideas in Ukrainiansociety was ensured through mass propaganda. The authorities tried to involve as wide a circle of participantsas possible in the propaganda process and used the entire available arsenal of mass media. The impositionof a collective management system in the Ukrainian countryside was closely connected with the breakingthe old worldview and traditional way of life. The aggressive way of imposing the kolkhoz system and theobvious discrepancy between the promises and the reality led to a confl ict of interest among the peasantcommunity and mass resistance to the actions of the authorities. Nevertheless, it should be noted that thechosen methods and forms of propaganda during the collectivization were successful in promoting the newideology. Propaganda as an important factor of change is considered in scientifi c works usually indirectlybecause researchers focus on the political and economic aspects of collectivization and the tragedy of theHolodomor 1932–1933. Its forms and methods require further study.The purpose. The aim is to fi nd out the most successful methods of infl uence and the most typicalmessages to the consciousness of the Ukrainian peasant during collectivization and the Holodomor of 1932–1933, ways of spreading information and the circle of people involved in propaganda activities.Conclusion. It was found that the communist totalitarian regime used all the media at that time (press,radio, cinema) to promote the idea of agriculture collectivization. The periodicals and posters were themost effective among them in the 1930s because the large readership was biggest. The party functionaries,school teachers, students, teachers of institutes and workers involved in grain harvesting were maked tobe propagandists. The сommunist propaganda appealed to people’s feelings, not their minds, so it wassuccessful. It used clear forms such as slogans, caricatures, combined different information genres skillfully.This approach caused the destruction of relations among the Ukrainian community, divided people intohostile social groups and facilitated the promotion of the idea of agriculture collectivization. At the same time,the propaganda imposed a fear of being left out of the team. As an integral part of state policy, propagandainfl uenced changes in the consciousness of Ukrainians in the direction of unquestioning perception decisionsof the communist party and the government and justifi cation of any their actions

Kada skandinavska krivica (scanguilt) sretne rijaliti - humanitarno-zabavni programski sadržaji i medijska reprodukcija kolonijalne imaginacije "Juga"

This paper examines the humanitarian reality genre in Norway as a form of entertainment, education, and information. Norwegian 'doing-good' entertainment content is explored as representative of particular cultural and historical context, especially due to the popularity, frequency of broadcasting and the specific societal status assigned to this format. An overview and the consideration of the fundamental themes and elements of the genre elaborates on the concepts of 'Scanguilt' and 'regime of goodness', relevant for the interpretation of these programs. Differences in comparison to non-fiction journalistic storytelling are also pertinent. Drawing from Tvedt's thesis on the strategic communication regime, the methods, actors and effects of this genre of entertainment, education and information are seen in a wider spectrum, not limited to the socio-political outcomes apparent only in the Norwegian context. This point of departure enables the move from the consequences to the Norwegian identity and society in the direction of the effects of the media reproduction of coloniality.

НОВИНАРНА ФОТОГРАФІЯ У СУЧАСНІЙ ЖУРНАЛІСТИЦІ: ВИДИ ТА ОСОБЛИВОСТІ

The article is about the fact that in modern mass-media photos more and more often become not only a visual background to informative, analytical or journalistic text, but as headlines attract attention of audience. Such kind of approach increases quality requirements of illustrative material in modern periodicals because popularity of texts which are published in newspapers and magazines depends on that. Some separate photos might become a kind of visual factage which does not need any verbal explanation. A lot of attention is paid to the role, purpose and features of photos for news as a genre of modern photojournalism. A short review of sources of research issues is made in the article. The author has considered the main definitions and features of news photography as one of the main informative genres of modern pictural journalism. It is accented on the fact that modern photojournalists have to orientate not only in genres of photojournalism but also to be able to use them in everyday practice. Here you can find views of photojournalism theorists on the condition of news photography. In the article are given recommendations of photojournalists practitioners and workers of information agencies on the main requirements of producing photos in this genre. In the article process of producing news photos and their use in modern periodical publications are considered. The author emphasizes on the quality of such pictures and their place in visual accompaniment of informative text. In the summary are given recommendations on preparation of photojournalists who are going to work in the genre of news photography.

Syncretism of the New Year’s Greetings Genre: Bilingual Ranking and Strategic Intentions

The article covers issues related to the New Year’s addresses of Vyacheslav Zelimkhanovich Bitarov, the head of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, and the Anatoly Ilyich Bibilov, President of the Republic of South Ossetia. as the specifics of political communication small form genre. The genre features and cultural and historical characteristics of the New Year’s address of the head of state are identified and described. The study is based on the methodological platforms of genre analysis, approaches to typologization of speech genres, methods of communication strategies analyzing, methods and techniques of cognitive analysis, methods of conceptological analysis, methods of contextual analysis. The authors identified the typologically inherent characteristics in this political discourse genre based on the multidimensional classification criteria. A detailed analysis of the structural and semantic organization of the New Year address has been carried out. Variants of language codes switching are revealed, namely parity messages duplication, summarization in the Ossetian language, circular bilingual representation of the text. An optical mode of ritual appeal, represented by prayer formulas, has been determined. The types of performativity realized through etiquette congratulations and generally accepted wishes, ethnic well-wishes and clichéd fragments of Ossetian toast-prayers are considered. . The basic concepts of the of New Year’s messages cognitive space are described, including ethnospecific Ossetian concepts «куывд»”(kuyvd”), «фарн» (“farn), «бæркад» (“bаrkad”) and universal concepts “values”, “past”, “future”, “achievements”. The originality of the appeal texts targeting is indicated, it consists in the native land – Ossetia (Iriston) personification and the ethnos differentiation into the North and South Ossetians. According to the study results, it was established that the congratulation texts of the North and South Ossetias leaders are generated on the basis of a stable model, which possesses the genre in political discourse institutional features and ethnic features of traditional Ossetian communication.

Celebrity gossip as a genre in English-language mass media discourse

The multidimensionality of rumours as part and parcel of mass communication has stipulated the research in their linguistic nature. The present paper studies this specific communication phenomenon and the discursive practices by means of which it is realized across the Anglophone mass media discourse continuum. The theory of discourse-analysis underpinning the present paper predetermines an integrative approach with various methods employed. This approach makes it possible to gain an insight into the complex nature of the object under study. The research is targeted at media rumours, namely celebrity gossip, manifested in on-line versions of the printed press and original web outlets in 2015-2018. The main goal of the research is to reveal specific features of media rumors as a speech genre in the Anglophone media communication. Celebrity gossip texts make up the empiric material for the present study. This aim is achieved via the description of the content and form of the text-type structure supplemented by an application of stylistic analysis. In terms of the topics, the findings demonstrate a wide variety of topoi comprising both public (social interactions) and private spheres of celebrities’ life with an emphasis on privacy, sensationalism and scandalous impropriety as dominant discursive characteristics of the text-type samples under study. The structure of the celebrity gossip discourse is represented by texts in different journalistic forms: from informative genres to feature type variations used by authors as means of constructing celebrity culture. The information of trivial content and questionable validity because of its unverified character is disguised as reports of high testimonial trustworthiness and epistemic value with the help of a variety of language and textual resources. The results of the study enable us to argue that within the mass media communication there exists a specific discourse which is hybrid by nature and non-evidential by verification.

Information Documents of Executives: Problems of Identification and Description

The article considers the system of information documents of the executives. It is shown that genre forms used in public administration for the purpose of informing are numerous. Many of these forms lack clear genre nominations, which explains the fact that researchers substitute genre nominations by names of the issues in which the informative documents are published. The author characterizes the information genres, which are in major demand with state administration: public report, press release and briefing materials. The article reveals that public report reflects information about the officials' actions or about the actual state of affairs with the relevant government agency; by its structure, it is a standardized text with language units typical of business communication. Press release is a short message about productive work of the authorities, aimed at shaping their positive image; its distinguishing feature is the use of emotionally and expressively colored lexical units and stylistic expressive means. The genre of briefing materials, along with the key objective – to inform, employs an additional setting for popularization of legal information, and hence a wide range of visual tools (tables, charts, flowcharts, fonts, colours, etc.). The author assumes that the contents and the instructive appeal of certain fragments of information genres make them close to the enacting documents genres, although their means of expressing style features are different.

A Genre and Collocational Analysis of Consequence, Result, and Outcome

This corpus-based study examines genres and collocation patterns in which the three synonyms ‘consequence’, ‘result’, and ‘outcome’ usually occur. The data on which the study is based is derived from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Of all the eight genres currently available in COCA, the three synonyms appear with the highest frequency in academic texts, whereas frequencies are lowest in informal genres, i.e. TV and movie subtitles and fiction. Of pedagogical concern is the fact that the common verb and adjective collocates repeatedly co-occur with the synonymous nouns. Determined by the COCA frequency and the MI value (≥ 3), ‘consequence’ is often used with verbs and adjectives conveying negative senses, and the typical collocates of ‘result’ has a clear association with research-oriented contexts. The collocates of ‘outcome’ have the broadest variety of semantic properties but are not directly related to any specific contexts. It is highly recommended that EFL teachers apply this genre and collocational information to synonym development lessons. Keywords: synonym; genre; distribution across genres; collocation; adjective and verb collocates

Collaborative Filtering-Based Film Recommendation Technique Utilizing Time and Film Genres

Due to the uncertainty of users’ preferences for different movies at different times, movie recommendation poses a huge challenge. We present an improved collaborative filtering algorithm for film recommendation whose design was motivated by a need to extract meaningful information for further recommending from film viewing applications. To this end, the method we propose utilises an improved method for analyzing user interest in film genres, which can then be subsequently used to predict users’ ratings of unwatched movies in combination with the current viewing time. In our new algorithm, we extract genre information considering time decay factor and combine it with matrix factorization collaborative filtering algorithm, and propose a novel algorithm structure, the MFTGICF algorithm. Compared with general traditional collaborative filtering algorithms and some other methods, this algorithm has more precision and higher stability. Both the theoretical analysis and extensive experiments show the improvement of the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method.

System informacyjny jako obiekt graniczny

Boundary objects simultaneously belong to several communities (so-called information worlds) and fulfill the information needs each of them. They can be easily adapted (customized) to the needs of any information world. At the same time, they ensure uniformity of operations across many applications. Such objects facilitate communication, but without blurring the differences between user groups. Each information system, to be able to perform basic functions, must be a boundary object, consisting of many subsystems also having this feature. From the point of view of the theory of information genres, both information system and its elements (e.g. database) should be treated as information genres, having the characteristics of boundary objects, i.e. those that allow discourse communities to reconcile over boundaries and differences. They enable the exchange of data and information objects within and between communicating worlds. In this way, the information system genre should be treated as a boundary object, shared by many information worlds above their differences.

Evidential Modification of a Statement in a News Discourse: A Functional Aspect

The results of a study of the modalization of statements in terms of reportative evidentiality in the news discourse based on the material of Russian, English and German-language articles are presented in the article. Particular attention is paid to the functions of quoted or reported speech and indicators of reportative evidentiality, which are considered as two components that make up the structural-semantic whole of statements with quotation inclusions. The novelty of the study is in an attempt to conduct a comprehensive study of the functional aspect of reportative-evidential modification of the utterance. The relevance of the study is due to the importance of the information and news genres of media discourse in modern society, as well as the insufficient development of the functional aspect of reportative-evidential modalization of the utterance in the news discourse for all the high frequency of quotation inclusions in the texts of this genre. A classification is proposed that includes eight functions: three functions of the evidential framework (meta-informing, increasing the recipient's trust in the reliability of the message and delegation of responsibility) and five functions of quoted and reported speech (informative, synthesizing, expressive-evaluative, nominative, argumentative). The conclusion about the interconnectedness of the selected functions among themselves, as well as about the possibility of implementing several functions within the framework of one utterance and in each case introducing into the utterance both reported speech and reportative evidentials is drawn.