Plan: Introduction

The following questions can be useful in post activity period of a lesson or hey can be done at home as home work for students:

1. What is the function of the headline?

2. How are the group headlines different from brief news items?
3. What stylistic devices are peculiar only to headlines?
4. Describe syntactic parameters of headlines.
5. What are the two basic types of advertisements and announcements?
6. Describe the accepted patterns of classified advertisements and announcements in newspaper advertising.
7. Characterize the peculiarities of non-classified advertisements and announcements.
8. What is the editorial characterized by? How are its linguistic parameters different from brief news items?
9. What is the editorial aimed at?
10. What are the essential forms of presenting information to the public in the printed matter?

1. What is the aim of the publicistic style?
2. What are the spoken varieties of the publicistic style?
3. What common features does the publicistic style have in common with scientific prose? with emotive prose?
4. List the distinguishing features of the publicistic style.
5. Describe the typical features of the spoken variety of speech present in the oratorical style.
6. Why do orators often resort in their speeches to repetition as stylistic device? What other devices does it usually accompany?
7. How would you explain the fact that the speakers in their oratories use traditional simile and metaphor and rarely original and unexpected images?
8. What differentiates the essay as a literary form from other varieties of the publicistic style?
9. Describe the characteristic features of the essay.
10. What rhetorical technique is used in political oratory?

1. What functional styles of language do news media exploit?

2. What is the chief constraint in the reporting of news in both spoken and written media?
3. Describe the most distinctive features of reporting.
4. Comment on deletion of a determiner as a socio-linguistic phenomenon.
5. What is the general proportion of news and its discussion to the total radio and television output?
6. What is the regular composition of the news bulletin in broadcasting?
7. What new language varieties have emerged in broadcasting media?
8. Give an account of the stylistic idiosyncrasies of weather reporting.
9. Describe a commentary as the most distinctive variety of broadcasting.
10. What are the stylistic ways commercial advertising stands out?
1. What is the primary function of a newspaper?
2. How does a newspaper influence public opinion on political matters?
3. What linguistic means are used to indicate a lack of surety on the part of the reporter as to the correctness of the facts reported?
4. What are the principle “vehicles” of interpretation and appraisal of the events described in a newspaper?
5. List the basic newspaper language features.
6. Describe the specific features of vocabulary in newspaper writing. Give examples.
7. Comment on the “five-w-and-h” pattern of sentence structure. Give examples.
8. Describe the grammatical parameters of the newspaper style. Give examples.
9. Comment on the violation of grammar rules in newspaper writing. Can it be considered as a functional peculiarity of the style?
10. What accounts for the lack of emotional colouring and individuality of expression in brief news items?