Functional, Grammatical and Lexical Specifics of Journalistic Writing at the Present time. The Language Used on the Internet

The problem of the contemporary journalism (language of reporting, documentary style) condition, which mainly uses the media for its purposes, is one of the most topical ones in the contemporary society. The specific character of language of media, as it was already mentioned, is usually determined by the special features of communicative situation as well as audience type it addresses. The strengthening of speech effect in journalism is achieved with the aid of the stylistic figures and tropes. Their usage is based on the two basic tendencies - standardization and expressiveness. Some expressive means of the language of journalism are converted into the clichés. During the last decades the language of reporting position in the stylistic system of the Russian language became even more complex. In the relationship of the basic forms of national language the expansion of two peripheral forms is very obvious - the expansion jargon forms and colloquial language. The language of journalism is leaving the rigid system of language styles and actively interacts with conversational language. In this situation the stylistic identity of the language of journalism occurs under the obvious threat. Today we observe one very interesting and important tendency: the contemporary language of media lies between two..