Angliškų ir lietuviškų meninių kūrinių recenzijų struktūriniai elementai

[full article, abstract in English; abstract in Lithuanian] With a growing amount of artworks that reach the audience every day, reviews become a useful instrument in making a choice of what deserves our attention. The review is considered to be a type of discourse that, first and foremost, includes description, information and evaluation of the item under discussion. It is expected to present the reviewed work, to analyze and evaluate it following such criteria as the structure, authenticity, originality, artistic advantages and disadvantages. Different cultures have different traditions of writing reviews, and this paper looks at how English and Lithuanian art reviewers construct their texts, what elements are used in the structure of reviews in these two languages. The corpus of the research data contains art reviews on films and theatre performances of the early 1970s. Qualitative analysis is the key method in this work. Keywords: English art reviews, Lithuanian art reviews, elements of art reviews, the structure, traditions of writing a review. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15823/zz.2018.17