MEANS OF REPRESENTING TEMPORALITY RELATIONS IN JOURNALISTIC WRITING (BASED ON LOCAL INTERNET NEWS SITE)

Abstract

Features of human perception of time are reflected in the language and participate in forming a coherent picture of the world of particular language speakers. The category of time in the Russian language can be represented by various language means. This work presents a description of grammatical and lexical means expressing temporality in journalistic writing. During the study, tense-aspect forms of verbs and participles were identified as the major grammatical means to express temporality. The main lexical means included nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs with the semantics of time. As a result, we were able to conclude that grammatical means are the central means of expressing the category of time. However, they are not always able to objectively represent the category of time due to the fact that the meaning of a verb form in Russian largely depends on the context. Therefore, lexical means are the peripheral part of the functional-semantic field of time that specify its central part - the grammatical category of time.