German-language newspapers of the Volga Germans Republic.
The work provides a brief overview of the content of the German-language newspapers of the Republic of the Germans in the Volga region; the main functions of the republican newspaper Nachrichten language and their implementation in the text, taking into account the main communicative and informational intentions are analyzed. The newspapers of the German autonomy, like everywhere in the Soviet country, played the role of a powerful tool of ideological propaganda. This mainly determined their language. At the same time, they were the main source of information for people. The main subject of the newspaper "Nachrichten" was considered in the article. It was both propaganda of the practice of socialist construction and harsh criticism of "class enemies", "fascists" and other "hostile elements." There are also materials that are thematically connected with the Communist Party, the Motherland, the Red Army, the Leader's personality, etc. The author examines the main functions of the newspaper language: persuasive (impact on the reader and an attempt to persuade him), the functions of argumentation and the collective organizer. To implement these functions, the newspaper Nachrichten alternately used the language of high and low-style registers, vocabulary of aggressive character, and also headings-slogans with an intentional impact on the reader, motivating him to take certain actions. In addition to these functions, the newspapers of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Germans in the Volga region objectively fulfilled one more task: educating people, involving the Germans in other functional styles of their native language. Literary lexicon actively penetrated into local dialects, and, thus, a gradual destruction of the dialect structure and formation of semi-dialects and colloquial language began to develop on their basis.