AGE OF ADDRESSEE AS A FACTOR DETERMINING STRUCTURAL, LINGUISTIC AND TEMPORAL FEATURES OF NEWS HYPOTEXTS
The paper focuses on the variability of structure, temporal and linguistic features of American online news depending on the age of the target audience. News hypotexts aimed at adults are built according to the principle of the “inverted” pyramid and contain all the components of the news scheme of T.A. van Dijk. The “inverted” pyramid of online news texts for children is “truncated”. All children’s news hypotexts don’t have a Headline. The analysis has proven that all news hypotexts aimed at children can be divided into three types: actual news, news + extensive background plan and background plan of the past presented as news. The analysis has shown the difference in the language of news hypotexts for adults and children. A tendency for neutrality and certain impersonality, high degree of cliché, a large number of citations and references to various sources of information, a tendency for factuality are typical of news hypotexts aimed at adults. News hypotexts aimed at children contain a direct address to the reader and have expressive vocabulary. As main methods of research process general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis and comparison, as well as linguistic methods of content analysis, discursive and interpretative analyses, the method of stylistic analysis were used.