ON (ANTI)CREATIVITY OF MEDIA DISCOURSE

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The article aims to identify key tendencies of linguistic creativity implementation in media discourse. Proceeding from the results of parametric analysis of English-language press articles dated 1990-2022, language units with linguacreative potential are divided into those with low creativity, with high creativity (original) and anticreative ones. The article concludes that linguistic creativity may be realized both within the language as a system and be discursively-bound.

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Ekaterina Sergeevna Shmelyova

Moscow State Linguistic University

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Email: katherineshm@gmail.com

PhD, Ass. Prof. of Department for English Stylistics Faculty of the English Language Moscow State Linguistic University

Russian Federation

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