Dubchak I. Sports discourse in Russian mass-media communicative space.

Dissertation is devoted to a comprehensive description of the sports discourse in media. Relations between the concepts of "mass-media" and "media" are clarified as well as features of the institutional sports discourse. The candidate for a degree describes terminology as verbal and cognitive base and marker of the sports discourse in media by means of with the help of the stylistic, derivate, cognitive and semiotic analysis. The results of the research indicated the expanding range of actors of the sports discourse in mass-media due to the fans and amateur athletes, exposed a tendency of increasing communicative activity of all actors in the discourse. In the thesis dynamics and permeability of the genres system in the sports discourse is fixed. It is proved that the telecomment composition depends on the kind of sport. A comparison of communicative strategies and tactics in various genres of sports discourse revealed the dependence of an objective and positive estimation from the level of sportive competence of the speaker. Chronological dynamism is represented in the thesis as an ontological feature of the sports discourse.