EXPRESSING ASSESSMENT IN JAPANESE NEWSPAPERS DISCOURSE

"The human factor" in the study of language plays important role in modern linguistics. The term "discourse" is used to emphasize the relationship of the text with "life". This relationship is most pronounced at the projection of the use of language in the mass media – in newspapers discourse. The article deals with the way of expressing assessment in Japanese newspapers discourse. The focus is on the lexical means analysis. The study is based on the texts of articles from Japanese information sites and newspaper. The plenty of ways for expressing the assessment category is determined by the task and specificity of the genre of author's articles, the events are passed through the direct perception of the journalist and imply the existence of a subjective assess- ment of information from the author's side