LEXICO-SEMANTIC PECULIARITIES OF PUBLICISTIC STYLE

Abstract

The article deals with peculiarities of the publicistic style in the English language. The aim of the current article is to study the publicistic style of speech and its features; to consider the general specificity of the publicistic style; to determine its main functions; to study the various sub-styles related to the publicistic style and to reveal the linguistic features of this style of speech.. The author of the article considers that publicistic style is an open system of linguistic means, which allows journalists to refer to the elements of other functional styles depending on the content of the publication to use a variety of vocabulary, including extra-literary words and expressions necessary for a reliable image of events and their characters.