LINGUO-STYLISTIC, SYNTACTICAL AND SEMANTIC FEATURES OF BRITISH MEDIA TEXTS

Abstract

The article focuses on the notion and the subject
of the study of the new scientific discipline called media linguistics.
The author explores certain functional genre types of
media texts which have developed fixed format features. The
research involves lexico-grammatical and functional- stylistic
analysis of the Internet versions of articles from the British
newspapers «The Guardian» and «The Times». Having carried
out the linguotextual analysis of the British media texts,
the author points out the way such a broad variety of stylistic,
grammatical and semantic peculiarities of the information
transmission in the British media texts has become one of the
stimuli to create media linguistics.