The Problem of Syncretism of News and Reportage Genres

• Published in: Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики
• Main Authors: gor A. Kudryashov, Anastasia A. Buryanova
• Format: Article
• Language: German
• Published: Publishing and Printing Center NOSU 2022-09-01
• Subjects: texts of news and reportage genre; typology of media genres; syncretism of mass media genres; rhetorical architectonics of the text; journalistic procedures of text generation
• Online Access: http://philjournal.ru/upload/2022-3/117-130.pdf

In the format of this study – based on the material of publications from the weekly magazine «Expert» – the functional similarity of the news and reportage genres is recorded and analyzed. When analyzing news and reportage texts, the following aspects are taken into account: (1) the journalist’s illocutionary purpose; (2) the specifics of the text production and interpretation, as well as the author and addressee’s social roles; (3) rhetorical architectonics and text composition; (4) genre typology of texts; (5) text interpretation strategies used by the addressee. The collected body of factual material was divided into two groups of texts. The basis for the differentiation of texts was such a parameter as the dominant / peripheral coverage of facts of a news nature. It is established that the texts of the first group show the characteristics of the news or reportage genre, the aspect of news coverage of the actual fact is explicitly present (the history of the formation of the fact on the time axis, its dynamic or static nature, the reactions of representatives of various social organizations or political parties to this fact, the consequences of the actual event are traced). It is noted that reports reflecting a point of view on a fact or psychological reports are generated regardless of the facts that are relevant for coverage at the moment: the first type of texts is formed on the basis of data from interviews with experts in the covered issues, the second type – with famous personalities belonging to the creative workshop. The last position in this group of texts is occupied by reports covering the actual fact, which are often difficult to distinguish from news texts. These texts were attributed to the genre of reportage on the grounds that they do not contain an impartial narrative about the facts that have just happened, but the publication of information that has previously been analyzed and structured by the journalist. The second group is formed by texts that belong to genres that reflect a more universal theme, and therefore are less related to the coverage of actual facts of everyday reality. It is concluded that the reportage-news continuum is also preserved in these texts.