Vakhovska L. Cinematography Texts in Present-Day American Periodicals from Cognitive and Communicative Perspectives.

The thesis focuses upon the study of cognitive and communicative peculiarities of cinematography texts (CT) in present-day American periodicals. CT are presented by summaries, synopses, capsules, reviews and interviews dealing with the films nominated for the best picture by American Academy of Movie Arts in 1998 - 2002. Cognitive analysis of CT contributed to singling out the set of the key concepts of modern American cinematography; classifying them into isomorphic, activated in CT by scriptwriters, directors, actors and critics, and allomorphic, identified by one of the above professional groups; presenting their verbal means and pointing out their structure. Communicative and compositional analyses of CT made it possible to find out their genre pecularities, composition, communicative structure, means of reaching the communicative aims in these texts. Pursuing different communicative aims moviemakers use informing, persuading, analytical and evaluative communicative strategies for creating different CT genres.