The word "journalism" came from Latin publicus that means public. The publicistic style is used for propaganda and promotion of the social and political ideas in newspapers and magazines, on radio and television.
Instruction
1. The difference of publicistic style from scientific, official, art and colloquial follows from its functions: information and influencing. The specifics of the information and influencing functions consist in the nature of information and the addressee. Publicistic works, as a rule, do not describe any given phenomenon comprehensively, and mark out those aspects of life which are interesting to broad masses. It influences at the same time not only reason, but also surely touches emotions and feelings of addressees.
2. The publicistic style is characterized by figurativeness, a statement polemichnost, popularity and brightness of means of expression, a positive or negative expression.
3. In vocabulary of this style social and political terms are widely used: "party", "meeting", "demonstration". Not a rarity in it emotional and estimated words: "innovator", "leader", "valorous", "inspiring". Expressional phrases and phraseological units are used in publicistic style: "sure gait", "shoulder to shoulder", "white gold", "green friend".
4. Morphological means of publicistic style are prefixes: "anti-", "neo-", "pseudo-". And suffixes: "-an ation", "-a fikation", "-an east", "-a-ism". Publicists often use in texts difficult adjectives, such as "mass and political", "advocacy".
5. Rhetorical questions are characteristic of syntax of publicistic style, for underlining of accent and strengthening repetitions of words, addresses, short offers, exclamations are used.
6. The publicistic style is implemented in genres of the political treatise, report, pamphlet, newspaper and journal essays, the report, feuilleton.