NEWSPAPER DISCOURSE: MAIN FUNCTIONS AND GENERAL CONSTRUCTIVE PRINCIPLES

Abstract

Mass media is one of the most important institutions of modern society. They perform various functions: inform, educate, entertain, advertise, the means that reflects the linguistic and cultural processes taking place in modern society. The newspaper is one of the most important mass media. It covers topical
issues and phenomena of current life and society, plays an important political and ideological role. Among the main features of newspaper discourse is a combination of expression and standard. In this article, the tendencies of expressiveness and standardization are analyzed on the examples of English and Uzbek newspaper genres.