Yerevan state university

YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Romance and Germanic Philology
Department of English for Cross-Cultural Communication
BACHELOR’S DEGREE THESIS
LINGUOSTYLISTIC PECULIARITIES OF NEWSPAPER LANGUAGE (with special reference to genocidal issues in the newspaper “Daily Star”)
STUDENT: SARAH MELKONYAN
SUPERVISOR: MARIANNA OHANYAN
YEREVAN -2017
Contents

Introduction 3

Chapter One

Functional Stylistics and Publicistic Style

1. 
   Newspaper Style and the Language of Media 5
   
2. 
   Realization Of Speech Functions in Newspaper Style 14
   

Chapter Two
Linguostylistic Analysis of Newspaper Articles
2.1. Genocide Vocabulary in the Newspaper “Daily Star” 20
2.2. The Language and Style of Genocidal Articles in the Newpaper “Daily Star” 26
Conclusion 29
Bibliography 31

Introduction

Today‘s life is unimaginable without mass media. It is a tremendous source of information for individuals and society. Newspaper as a form of mass media is known for several ages. However, the investigation of newspaper language has started only in the mid-20th century. We intend to show the coverage of genocidal issues in newspapers and particularly, in the ''Daily Star'' newspaper.

The subject matter of the present graduation paper is the Linguostylistic Peculiarities of Newspaper Language with special reference to genocidal issues in the “Daily Star” newspaper.
The choice of the topic is motivated by the importance of analyzing media language especially in the context of genocidal articles.
The topicality of present graduation paper is to examine newspaper language, its manifestations in the sentences and also to understand what kinds of methods are used in the texts in order to acquaint the reader with historical events.
The aim of the present graduation paper is to examine newspaper language, its peculiarities and characteristics. The paper examines stylistic devices used in genocidal articles which have an aim to create special effects and influence on the readers opinion. The present paper focuses on the main grammatical as well as lexical language features that create the style of articles found in the broadsheet newspaper.
In order to achieve the aim, the following objectives have been put forward:

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  To overview the theoretical data of functional styles.
  
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  To overview newspaper style.
  
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  To analyze speech functions in newspaper style
  
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  To indicate the frequency of certain stylistic features used in the genocidal articles
  
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  To discuss vocabulary and terms used in the genocidal articles particularly in “Daily Star” newspaper
  

The graduation paper consists of the following parts: Introduction, Chapter One with two subchapters, Chapter Two with two subchapters, Conclusion and Bibliography.