The use of the Present Continuous,the Future Continuous and to be going to -structure as means of expressing futurity in British and American newspapers

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  10.12.2018 г.
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  36 стр.
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  Introduction 3
  Chapter 1. Grammatical Means of Futurity Expression in the English Newspaper Style 5
  1.1. Present Continuous, Future Continuous and to be going to – structure as markers of futurity in the English language 5
  1.2. Newspaper style and its peculiarities in popular and quality newspapers 10
  1.3. Futurity expression in newspaper style 14
  Chapter 2. Futurity Structures in the English Newspapers (on the Material of British Newspapers) 17
  2.1. Futurity structures in British quality press 17
  2.2. Futurity structures in British popular press 20
  2.3. Comparative analysis of the use of future tenses and structures in the British quality and popular newspapers 22
  Conclusion 26
  Bibliography 28
  Appendix 1 30
  Appendix 2 33
  
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  Introduction
  
  The present research is directed to the analysis of the use of different means of expressing futurity in British newspapers. The category of futurity is very broad in the modern English Grammar. Its means of expression are not only future tense forms, but also other markers such as Present Continuous tense form or to be going to-structure. The modern British newspapers touch different themes. Sometimes it is necessary to depict a certain future action that is possible with the help of Present Continuous, Future Continuous and to be going to-structure. The topicality of the present research consists in the fact that British quality and popular press can perform differences in the expressions of futurity. And this question has not been investigated as yet.
  The object of the present research is the category of futurity.
  The subject of the research is grammatical means of expressing futurity.
  The aim of the present paper is to analyze the use of the Present Continuous, the Future Continuous and to be going to - structure as means of expressing futurity in British newspapers.
  This aim can be reached by means of several tasks:
  1. To examine Present Continuous, Future Continuous and to be going to-structure as markers of futurity in the English language.
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  Chapter 1. Grammatical Means of Futurity Expression in the English Newspaper Style
  1.1. Present Continuous, Future Continuous and to be going to – structure as markers of futurity in the English language
  
  In the modern linguistics the problem of futurity attracts a lot of attention. The complexity of futurity research consists in the fact that the English language provides several ways of referring to events which are to take place later than the speech moment. More over, markers of futurity exist in different language levels: grammatical, lexical, syntactical levels.
  Futurity can be explained, according to H.C. Wekker, as “the expression of the temporal relationship of posteriority (‘later than’) relative to the moment of utterance or some other reference point, in the way that past and present time reference could be defined as expressing, basically, the temporal relations of anteriority and simultaneously, respectively” [Wekker, p. 7].
  It is known that the English language operates three main groups of tenses: Present tenses, Past tenses and Future tenses. But there is no formal ground for these three tenses in English. For example, some future actions can be represented in speech by means of describing of present events (for example: that will be John coming up the stairs now) or even with the help of timeless truth (for example: boys will be boys). Similarly, present tense can be referred not only to the action in the moment of speech, but also to future events (the train leaves at 5 o’clock), timeless truths (time flies like an arrow) and even to past events in the historical present (Hannibal surprises his enemies by crossing the Alps) [Binnick, p. 8].
  Nevertheless, grammatical tense is the main means of expressing futurity in English. Tense is understood as “the form of the verb which indicates the time of the action” [Крылова, p. 13].
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