Implicit ways to express the author’s opinion in the publicistic discourse of Runet blogosphere

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The modern analysis of journalist discourse is based on many extralinguistic factors: ethnocultural characteristics of the social environment, creating and sustaining discourse; conditions of political loyalty and the orientation of journalist discourse to the target audience, sources of discourse replenishment and conditions for its self-development in the general discourse-forming environment. These factors have a direct impact on specific ways of delivering information by the authors of the journalistic message to the individual recipient and the mass audience. The relevance of the research is determined, first of all, by the study of the features of the Russian language functioning on the Internet, which fits into the foremost problems of modern Russian studies. The novelty is associated with the analysis of specific ways of linguistic expression of the author’s position in Runet journalism, which have not been specially studied so far. The purpose of the research is to consider the ways of expressing evaluation in the texts of the Runet blogs authors. The article shows that implicit ways of expressing the author’s evaluation in the Runet texts have the same function as any other evaluative statements: to specifically influence the addressee. The studied material shows that the evaluativeness of the Runet blogosphere authors statements, closely interacting with expressiveness and emotionality, depends on their subjective perception of information and helps them express their point of view. The article highlights the implicit ways of expressing the author’s position, which allow in an implicit but understandable form to convey the meaning of the statement to the recipient. The study used materials from Runet blogs, which most vividly and representatively show the features of the Russian-language network journalistic discourse. When working with speech material, analytical methods were used - descriptive (descriptive-analytical) and contrastive, which revealed the linguistic specifics of journalistic discourse, identified and interpreted intra-contextual and intertextual connections, established communication features. The research approaches of discourse analysis and stylistics were also used. The studied material and the results allow to conclude that implicit ways of expressing the author’s position have the same goals as explicit value judgments: they emotionally affect the recipient and accurately convey the meaning of the statement. At the same time, implicitness in the Russian language successfully solves the problem of creating and maintaining the author’s individuality. The prospects for this study are seen in further scientific development of various implicit ways of expressing the author’s position in Runet journalism for further understanding of new processes in the Russian language, in the formation of journalistic discourse and in Russian communication in the digital space.

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Svetlana A. Shumilina

Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature and Creative Writing

Author for correspondence.
Email: shumilina.swet@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6212-9227

postgraduate student, Department of Russian Language and Stylistics

25 Tverskoy Bulvar, Moscow, 123104, Russian Federation

Vera N. Levina

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Email: levina_vn@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3732-6990

Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Russian Language Department No. 1

6 Miklukho-Maklaya St, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation

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