EDITORIALS: STRUCTURAL FEATURES

Authors

  • Armine MATEVOSYAN Yerevan State University
  • Lilya KONDYAN Yerevan State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/FLHE/2019.23.1.024

Keywords:

editorials, news articles, persuasive and argumentative function, hierarchical organization of clauses, structural types of sentences, passive voice, modal structures

Abstract

The paper introduces the structural features of editorials based on the data collected from most popular newspapers. Editorials are newspaper articles that combine fact and opinion to interpret current issues and at the same time shape the readers’ opinion. The main functions of editorials are those of argumentation and persuasion. The paper studies how these functions are expressed by some grammatical means, such as passive voice, modal structures, sentence types.

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Published

2020-05-31

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 1 (26) (2019)

Section

Linguistics

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