Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

 
Questions for discussion: 
1. 
What is publicistic style? Speak about its aim. 
2. What are the peculiarities of oratorical style? 
3. What are the peculiarities of the essay? 
4. Describe articles of publicistic character and show their distinction from newspaper 
and scientific ones. 
 
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4. Newspaper style 
The English newspaper style may be defined as a system of interrelated lexical, 
phrase logical, grammatical means, aimed at serving the purpose of informing and 
instructing the reader.
Not all the printed matter found in newspapers comes under the newspaper 
style. The modern newspaper carries material of an extremely diverse character. On 
the pages of a newspaper one finds not only news and comment on it, but also stories 
and poems, crossword puzzles, chess problems, and the like. Since these serve the 
purpose of entertaining the reader, they cannot be considered specimens as science 
and technology, art, literature, etc. be classed as belonging to newspaper style. 
The most concise form of newspaper information is the headline. 
The newspaper also seeks to influence public opinion on political and other 
matters. 
Editorials, leading articles are characterized by a subjective handling of facts. 
To understand the language peculiarities of English newspaper style it will be 
sufficient to analyze the following basic newspaper features: 
1.
Brief news items; 
2.
The headline; 
3.
Advertisements and announcements; 
4.
The editorial. 
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