Regushevskaya I. The category of the norm and its expression in Russian publicistic media text (functional-communicative aspect)

The thesis is devoted to the study of the category of the norm and its expression in Russian publicistic media text. In the work the typology of the language norms is studied in accordance with their realization on different language levels. It is proved that the modern media texts have a great influence on semantics, stylistic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic changes of the normative Russian literary language. The due cognisance is paid to the media worldview which is the result of information activity of the mass media and the society. This activity leads to the creation of the new actuality which reflects the changes in political, social and cultural reality. It is considered that the phenomena of fixed transformations are recorded in the mass media texts of multilingual and multicultural region of Crimea, the multilingualism of which results in specific aspects of the norm change (for instance, surzhik). On the basis of data acquired from the texts the individual forms his own attitude to the facts and phenomena.