The newspaper style

Not all the printed matter found in newspapers comes under newspaper style. The modern newspaper carries material of an extremely diverse character. One finds here news and comment on it; press reports of various events, articles on political and social problems, including the editorial, full texts of various documents and speeches of public figures, advertisements and announcements, poetry and emotive prose, book reviews, cross-word puzzles, chess problems and so on. All these kinds of material have different functions and different linguistic characteristics and belong to different functional styles. Example: articles on political and social problems, the editorial and commentary have the aim of influencing the reader by giving an interpretation of certain facts and they are classical specimens of publicistic style. Texts of documents represent the style of official documents.

But some of the material is to be found only in newspaper. It has its own function - which is information - and its own linguistic properties. The material is:

1. Brief news items;

2. Press reports (parliamentary, of court proceedings);

3. Articles purely informational in character;

4. Adds and announcements.

The main function of it is information, though it has elements of evaluation, like publicistic material. It is characterized by some language properties which are to be found only in this kind of writing. The language peculiarities of the newspaper style are concentrated in:

a) brief news items;

b) adds and announcements;

c) headlines.

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