Extralinguistic factors of influence on communicative peculiarity of sport report in newspaper

Entertaining nature of themodern press appears in particular through the diversity of genres the information is formed in. One of the striking genres ofcontemporary international press is a sport report. This genre is characterized by a number of genre features, which are under influenceof some linguistic and extra linguistic factors. The subject of consideration in this article is the extra linguistic factors that determinecommunicative peculiarity of the sport report in a newspaper. We consider these factors are journalist's competence, type of periodicalnewspaper (qualitative or gutter press), kind of sport, which the report is devoted to, and the level of sport event. Journalist's skill iscomposed of ability to combine cogency of the facts in the material, unified tonality and also ability to feel, "to hear" the material likethe readers of the article, to start a dialogue with them. Different types of periodical newspapers choose proper text forms of statementof facts. These forms differ in language (lexical, syntactic and content-rich level) and in graphical display. The dedicated peculiaritiespoint out the information aspect of the genre "sport report" in qualitative newspapers and the entertaining dominant in the gutter press.Expressiveness of a sport report in qualitative newspapers is lower than in the text of the same kind in the gutter press. Another extralinguisticfactor, which, in our opinion, influences the communicative peculiarity of the sport report, is the choice of the described kindof sport. Relying on the results of our research we can claim that not all kinds of sport events can be described in the genre of report.Their list is limited and different in Russian and German press though the only leader in both lists is football. This fact can be explainedby a number of reasons. First, seasonal kinds of sport events are held in definite frequency. Second, the format of some kinds of sport(individual ones, as a rule) does not fit in the report model because it is not always possible to follow the dynamics of the events. Third,the cause of lower interest to some kinds of sport is thought to be their bad development in the country and the lack of its athletes'progress in the international level. The level of sport event in our opinion also belongs to the extra-linguistic factors having an influenceon sport report peculiarity. Special attention to the sports contest and the readers' need in information about it are sure to have a detailedattention in press. Thus, the extra-linguistic factors, which influence the communicative modern text peculiarity of the genre "sportreport", are journalist's competence, type of periodical newspaper, specific character of sport, its spectacle properties and the level ofsport event. If we consider "style" as a linguistic concept and as design of particular qualities of the displaced material in the newspaper,we can say that in the article the described extra linguistic factors have the biplane application and give the general recipient'simpression. Stylistic expressiveness of the sport report text considerably depends on journalist's skill. The type of periodical newspaperthat gives main requirements to the speech style also influences the emotional expressiveness of the sport report. As for the extralinguistic characteristics connected with design in the newspaper page, the journalist's skill plays here a less important role. At the sametime the type of periodical newspaper, specific character of sport and the level of sport event cause its text appearance.

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