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Under the conditions of an emerging information society, the study of mass media language has become particularly important. Until recently, the research of language functioning in mass media has been conducted by representatives of practically all branches of linguistics: sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, etc. Nowadays the situation is such that there are all necessary preconditions for uniting all these different approaches under one academic discipline – media linguistics.
Thoughts on what kind of dictionaries and why they are necessary for journalists lead to the conclusion: first of all, dictionaries of pronunciation are interesting for them. Radio and television journalists need pronouncing dictionaries. In this regard, there are such modern dictionaries as “The Dictionary of Russian Pronunciation Difficulties” (Kalenchuk/Kasatkina 2006), “The Dictionary of Emphasis for Radio and TV announcers” (Vvedenskaja 2004) and “The Dictionary of Perfect Russian Emphasis” (Shtudiner 2007). Dictionary reference books that help to avoid some spelling mistakes are necessary in the newspaper practice. This type of publication includes “The Abridged Dictionary of Russian Language Difficulties for the Workers of the Press” (1968) that contains about 400 words, and reference books such as: “Word Usage Difficulties in TV and Broadcasting” (Gajmakova/Menkevich 1998) and “Russian Language Difficulties” by Rakhmanova (ed.) (1994).
Jedes Textstück aus einer Zeitung, jeder Ausschnitt aus einem Nachrichtenfilm oder einer Talkshow kann belegen, dass Sprachgebrauch nicht mehr mit dem Handwerkszeug traditioneller Sprachwissenschaft allein beschrieben und erklärt werden kann. Die vielfältigen Phänomene sprachlicher Medialität und ihre intermedialen Einbindungen erfordern eine Abkehr von reduktionistischen Sprachtheorien ebenso wie die Entwicklung einer Medienlinguistik, die mediale Texte als komplexe Bedeutungskonstrukte auf dem Hintergrund technischer Dispositive und kultureller Praktiken zu verstehen vermag.
In the present article I have decided to focus on the analysis of one of the most "traditional", but still fast-developing and ever-changing type of advertising – on the analysis of advertising in the press. The more my colleagues, students, and I try to analyse, scrutinise and describe particular aspects of advertising, the more obvious it is that to make this analysis authentic and reliable from the theoretical point of view and important from the practical point of view, it is necessary to suggest a universal approach to the study.
Quality journalism offers its educated readers unsimplified linguistic usage which comprises standard collocations, phrases and utterances on the one hand, and occasional word-combinations, deformed idioms and quotations on the other. The former belong to the language system and reside in a variety of unilingual dictionaries, whereas the latter are confined to speech and have little chance of being registered by lexicographers.