PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS OF REPETITIONS IN NEWSPAPER INFORMATIONAL TEXTS

Abstract

The scientific article continues the number of researches dealing with the theory of text. The author studies pragmatic functions of repetitions in informational newspaper texts, namely – in newspaper weather forecast reports of “The Washington Times”. The achievement of the goal mentioned above is subject to the fulfilment of the following tasks: it is necessary to characterize the elements of redundancy in newspaper weather forecast reports and to find the specific features of repetitions in such kind of texts. Moreover, the author analyzes such notions as ‘information’, ‘redundancy’, and ‘compression’. Linguists pay much attention to newspaper informational texts because Mass Media influence has been constantly strengthening and expanding. Nowadays Mass Media has become one of the greatest ‘influencers’ in the society. The topicality of the linguistic problem mentioned above is proved by the huge interest to the noise-resistant factors that are aimed at providing efficient transferring and obtaining information in the process of newspaper communication. Fundamental works of Ukrainian and foreign linguists in the fields of text theory, pragmalinguistics, cybernetics, and stylistics have served as the basis of the scientific article. Newspaper weather forecast reports are the object of the paper, and elements of redundancy in the given texts are the subject of the research. Repetition provides coherence in newspaper informational texts, focuses on the subject of report, and contributes to automatic remembering of information and its saving in long-run memory.