The ways of expressing evaluation by means of language in English modern press and the role of repetitions in the texts of modern newspaper discourse. Characteristics of the newspaper discourse as the expressive means of influence to mass reader.
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This is especially so when the main clause precedes a subordinate clause [16, p. 119], which indicated that foregrounding and backgrounding are strategies to which journalists resort in order to emphasise or de-emphasise information. At text level the images used to describe the situation also have an evaluative value. The overall text organization is also linked to evaluation - for example repetitions, parallel structures, paragraph sequence. In newspapers articles the lead, which is the summary of the article which answers the questions who, what, where, when, how, is defined by Bell as fulfilling a double function - it summarizes the events and focuses them in a particular direction; it is a focus of evaluation as it indicates the author’s position. So, evaluation is one of the peculiarities of the newspaper discourse that is needed to be studied and analyzed on the text level. 1.3 The nature and the main features of repetitions in the newspaper discourse Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular placement of the words, in order to emphasize. This is such a common literary device that it is almost never even noted as a figure of speech. It Leech and Short describe formal repetition as «repeated use of an expression (morpheme, lexical item, proper name, phrase, etc.), which has already occurred in the context» [21, p.