Syntactic Expressivity in Cultural Reporting: Insights from Australian Media
https://doi.org/10.24833/2687-0126-2023-5-4-27-40
Abstract
The article aims to study the usage and influence of expressive syntax within a variety of culture-related articles featured in contemporary Australian digital media. Leveraging textual analysis on online articles sourced from prominent Australian newspapers such as “The Sydney Morning Herald”, “The Alice Springs News”, “Katherine Times”, and “The New Daily”, the research provides insights into the frequency and novelty of expressive syntactic elements employed within. Particularly prevalent techniques, such as parenthetical inclusions, interrogative sentences, elliptical, nominative, and parcelled constructions, are thoroughly examined for their expressive potential. The study offers a comprehensive breakdown of these syntactical elements, highlighting key types, delineating their general attributes, and enumerating the specifics of their implementation within the researched texts. It especially highlights the frequent interaction of various expressive syntax within single sentences, proposing that this phenomenon increases the techniques’ effectiveness. Furthermore, the study explores the amplification of expression through the usage of specific punctuation marks, including quotation marks, dashes, colons, brackets, semicolons, and ellipses, each undergoing a thorough analysis for potential effect. In summarizing the principal outcomes of the research, the study asserts the significant role of expressive syntactic techniques in crafting engaging and impactful cultural articles within modern Australian media.
About the Author
E. A. Korableva
Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ekaterina A. Korableva, Cand. Sci. (Philology), Head of the Department of Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication
Tula.
References
1. Akhmanova, O.S. (2004). Slovar’ lingvisticheskikh terminov [Dictionary of Linguistic Terms]. Moscow: Editorial URSS (in Russian).
2. Aleksandrova, O. V., Korableva, E. A., & Kharkovskaya, А. A. (2020). Expressive Syntactic Devices as Means of Forming Advertising Discourse. In E.N. Malyuga (Ed.). Functional Approach to Professional Discourse Exploration in Linguistics (pp. 59-93). Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-32-9103-4_3
3. Aleksandrova, O.V. (2009). Problemy ekspressivnogo sintaksisa: Uchebnoe posobie [Problems of the Expressive Syntax: Textbook]. Moscow: Knizhniy dom “LIBROKOM” (in Russian).
4. Arnold, I.V. (2002). Stilistika. Sovremenniy angliyskiy yazyk: Uchebnik dlya vuzov [Stylistics. Modern English: Textbook for Universities]. Moscow: Flinta: Nauka (in Russian).
5. Barkhudarov, L.S. (1966). Struktura prostogo predlozheniya sovremennogo angliyskogo yazika [The Structure of a Simple Sentence of Modern English]. М.: Vysshaya shkola (in Russian).
6. Berestneva, A.V. (2021). Punktuatsia. Osnovnye Pravila = Punctuation. Basic Rules: Uchebnoe posobie na angliiskom yazyke [Punctuation. Basic Rules: Textbook]. Maikop: AGU (in Russian).
7. Dzhagatspanyan, О., & Orlova, S. (2020). The Role of Syntactic Expressive Means in the English Language Economic Mass Media. International Journal of English Linguistics, 10(5), 15-22. doi:10.5539/ijel.v10n5p15
8. Hackl, M. (2013). The syntax-semantics interface. Lingua, 130, 66-87. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2013.01.010
9. Konietzkoa, A., Winklerb, S. (2010). Contrastive ellipsis: Mapping between syntax and information structure. Lingua, 120(6), 1436-1457. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2008.08.009
10. Korableva, E.A. (2008). Ekspressivnyye sintaksicheskiye sredstva sozdaniya reklamnogo teksta na angliyskom yazyke [Expressive syntactic means for creating advertising text in English] [Candidate’s thesis, Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University]. Tula, Russia (in Russian).
11. Koretnikova, L.I. (1999) Ellipticheskije konstruktsii i ih vzaimodejstvije s tekstom: na materiale raznih funktsional’nih stilej russkogo i anglijskogo jazikov [Elliptical Constructions and their Interaction with Text: Based on the Material of Different Functional Styles of the Russian and English Languages] [Candidate’s thesis]. Saratov, Russia (in Russian).
12. Ksenzenko, O.A. (1998). Kak sozdayetsya reklamnyy tekst: Funktsional’no-ekspressivyye aspekty reklamnogo teksta [How to create advertising text: functional and expressive aspects of an advertising text]. Moscow: Dialog-MGU (in Russian).
13. Kuznetsova, O.G. (2019). K voprosu o partselljatsii [On the Issue of Parcelling]. Nauka i obrazovanie: novoye vremya [Science and Education: the New Time], 2(31), 208-215 (in Russian).
14. Lopatin, V.V. (Ed.). (2009). Pravila russkoj orfografii i punktuatsii. Polny akademichesky spravochnik [Rules of Russian spelling and punctuation. Complete Academic Reference]. Moscow: AST (in Russian).
15. Valgina, N.S., Rozental, D.E., & Fomina, M.I. (2002). Sovremenny russky yazik: Uchebnik [Modern Russian Language: Textbook] Ed. by Valgina N.S. Moscow: Logos (in Russian).
16. Vorobyova, Y.N. (2022). Ekspressivny sintaksis angliyskogo yazika: sistematichesky obzor [Expressive Syntax of the English Language: A Systematic Review]. Philology. Theory & Practice, 15 (7), 2167-2173 (in Russian).
17. Vostrikova, T.I., & Molchanova, E.E. (2021). Voprositelnoje predlozhenije / Vyskazivanije kak object issledovanija gumanitarnoj nauki [Question and Interrogative Sentence / Statement as an Object of Research in the Humanities]. Humanitarian Researches, 4(80), 128-133 (in Russian).
Review
For citations:
Korableva E.A. Syntactic Expressivity in Cultural Reporting: Insights from Australian Media. Professional Discourse & Communication. 2023;5(4):27-40. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24833/2687-0126-2023-5-4-27-40
Email this article 