Phraseology in Modern Russian Media

Student: Malenkova Mariia

Educational Programme: Journalism (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2017

The general purpose of this academic project is to study phraseology in modern media, to analyze the functions, the structural and semantic modifications, to investigate the media communicative strategies connected with using the phraseology. The empirical database consists of the materials of ‘The arguments and the facts’ for the last 6 months of 2016 year. The problem of this research is based on the permanent reformation of the journalistic language: as the language in social media becomes more conversational and emotionally colored, the cases of the intentional using of idioms and set phrases in media increase. The research is focused, mainly, on the empirical database, the real samples of idioms and language game in the considering material. The goal of the project is going to be achieved via linguistic analysis of the text and studying the theoretical material.

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