Charakterystyka językowa rosyjskiego dyskursu medialnego na przykładzie wiadomości prasowych

Abstract: This article focuses on the analysis of news and press texts in Russian language. One can notice that the Russian mass media have gone through some kind of revolution over the past few years. This quick transformation, however, have not always brought positive effects. It presents certain examples as evidence that conceptual freedom and freedom of language is one of main agents of those changes in the journalistic discourse. The analysis texts shows that discourse of news releases is looks more like the spoken language than the written. This in turn leads to colloquialisation of contemporary journalistic language. The expansion of freedom of communication, explicitness and expressiveness of the public language, it’s aggression and vulgarity were highlighted. This article aims to explain these phenomena in the context of changes in mass communication in contemporary culture and communication.