TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF A TEXT OF READERS’ LETTERS IN NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION (ON THE BASIS OF THE NEWSPAPER MATERIALS “BERLINER MORGENPOST”)

The information about the text temporary structure at present is quite fragmentary, accumulating itself in linguistics due to the latest researches into the tense category, on the one hand, to the study of the genre and functional-semantic peculiarities of the temporal structure of different types of texts, on the other, and lastly, in connection with the problem of the functional-semantic types of speech and the consideration of the use of tenses as one of the structural grammatical features of a functional-semantic type of speech. The goal of the research is to substantiate the methods of analysis of the temporal structure of the readers’ letters text of the newspaper “Berliner Morgenpost”, to illustrate the norm of tense usage in the given genre of the newspaper publicism and to analyze comprehensively the text-forming functions of the tense category. The analyzed problem is actual from the viewpoint of the text grammar as the newspaper is not an indivisible text but a systematic complex of texts joined by the singleness of time and place of origin, the general idea content and their own formation pattern.