Kiyko Y. Fractal Modeling of the Invariant-Variant Media Text Structure in the German and Ukrainian Languages

The thesis is dedicated to the study of fractal modeling of the invariant-variant media text structure in the German and Ukrainian languages. Fractality as a multi-scale structural self-similarity of an object allows for a new view on and modeling of such a complex communicative unit as a text on the main stages of its informational unraveling from the header to the final semiotic sign. Depending on their volume, two- or three-fractal models of informational, informational-analytical and analytical media genres are distinguished in the German and Ukrainian languages. A brief news item is characterized by the two-fractal structure both in German and Ukrainian media practice. German and Ukrainian newspaper reports are built based on the three-fractal model. It is the largest variant of the informational genre in both languages, characterized by considerable diversity in unraveling the news in the final fractal in order to encourage the recipient to read the entire text in full, as opposed to news articles and brief news items. The categories of reference, evidence and temporality, dominant for informational and analytical media texts, correlate with their genre and fractal structure.