THE SYNTACTIC LEVEL OF EMOTIVENESS IN ENGLISH MEDIA-NEWS ABOUT THE CURRENT STATE OF COFFEE INDUSTRY

Abstract

Summary. The purpose of the study is to reveal the specificity of emotive syntax in media news texts on the material of the Internet resource “Sprudge” that informs about the current state of coffee production and functioning of processing businesses, and also enterprises of hospitality selling coffee products. The following tasks will allow us to achieve the purpose: 1) to identify syntactic markets of emotiveness in the news texts of the website “Sprudge” dated 2023; 2) to systemize the identified structures and 3) to find t he emotions they correlate with. The novelty of the research consists in the fact that the available publications considering the issue of emotive syntax concern the texts of fictional texts, whereas there is a lack of similar studies based on the material of medianews. In order to achieve the purpose, the methods of complex and component analysis were applied. Linguistic examination of the content of the website “Sprudge” allowed identifying syntactic units with markers of emotiveness and grouping them by the types of constructions: interrogative sentences on the whole and rhetorical questions in particular (incomplete sentences, interrogative-affirmative models, gradation), exclamatory sentences, repetitions, parceled constructions and expletive words. It was found that expressiveness of the identified emotive units can be increased through using the punctuation mark “ellipsis”, and also graphic highlighting. The identified emotive constructions mostly correlate with the positive emotions of joy, love, and pleasure, however, there are syntactic means expressing anxiety, embarrassment, sadness and even anger. The prospects of further research can be in finding the specificity of emotive syntax on the material of media-news about other branches of economy.