Contexts with the word truth in modern media discourse (on the material of the city newspaper Kuznetsky rabochy)

Modern regional media discourse offers three components of the concept: ''truth of fact'', ''truth of thought'' and ''truth of conscience''. Each semantic component has its semantic and stylistic specificity of having the concept's name in a statement, the usages of the concept are differentiated: 1) predicative usage of the concept's name, when the word truth becomes the bearer of the logical subject's true evaluation or of statement's substance; 2) usage of the word truth in the actant position; 3) solitary cases of usage of the word truth in a nominative sentence. Predicative usage of the word truth is typical for contexts ''truth of fact'' and ''truth of thought'' and is realized in the models ''logical subject - evaluative predicate'', ''statement - its true evaluation''. In the semantic and stylistic realization of the first model the connection with pejorative contexts is especially important (including contexts with accusatory, revealing character). The regulative force of the model ''logical subject - evaluative predicate'' is connected with the effect of the referent's focusing; it increases when the pronoun everything is used. The second model is the most popular; it reflects the dialogism of the newspaper journalistic text: while expressing true evaluation the author does not only arrange semantic accents, but also underlines the sincerity of communication. The model ''statement -its true evaluation'' plays an important part in forming text cohesion. Constructions using connections with anaphoras are especially important in this case; statements telling a fact or a thought become the antecedent in them. The word truth is used in the role of the actant in all these types of contexts: more rarely in the role of subject-neutral, in most cases - in the role of the object. Usage of the word truth as the object is very diverse, especially in the contexts of ''truth of conscience''. The contexts of ''truth of thought'' and ''truth of conscience'' in particular do not actualize the true, but the moral evaluation. Not knowing the truth is estimated disapprovingly, while knowing it is a necessary condition for a moral judgment. The cliche smotret'pravde v glaza (litso) (to face the truth), which is most typical for the contexts of "truth of thought", plays the most important role among epistemic contexts. It is necessary to note the key semantic and stylistic role of the contexts of "truth of thought", in which statements including the word truth with the meaning of the object create two associative and semantic complexes: ''Service to the truth'' and ''Falling away from the truth''. The usage of the word truth in the role of the principal part of nominative sentences creates an effect of expressive announcement of information in newspaper materials. The system of stylistic features of including the concept's name in statements corresponds with every semantic component of the word truth in newspaper texts. The spiritual wealth of the concept ''truth'' by the results of the analysis is connected with the meaning ''truth of conscience".

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