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The article is included in the range of works devoted to the study of genre characteristics of texts and genre forms. The relevance of the study is determined by the specific nature of speech genres and their variability. The purpose of the work is to research the magazine “Tram” as a speech genre and its genre forms. The material for the study was the journal issues published between 1990 and 1995. The article tries to consider the relationship between the concepts of “genre” and “genre form”.

The article characterizes conceptual metaphors as one of the ways of structuring the genre of analytical review in modern Russian newspapers. The object of the study is spatial transfer models used by analysts (professional journalists and experts) to represent the image of the United States in the modern world. The research material consists of 138 spatial metaphors in 410 contexts extracted from 43 articles of six socio– political newspapers dating 2022–2023.

 In the “Notes” the author cites the choice of options of a number of Russian words from several issues of the newspaper «Moskovsky Komsomolets» for the summer of 2023: rather frequent usages of dostatochno (≈‘enough’), ochen’ (≈‘very’), dovol’no (≈‘quite’), skhozhest’ (≈‘similarity’), skhozhiy (≈‘similar’), rarer usages of krayne (≈‘extremely’), pokhozhiy (≈‘similar’), podobnyy (≈‘similar’), ochevidno (≈‘obviously’), initial and middle takzhe (≈‘as well’).

In the modern media environment covering all fields of human endeavour different types of discourse, religious ones with their genres as well, get representation. The speech genre of religious instruction seems to be most widely spread. The genre under discussion is viewed as a part of the primary genre in the religious discourse – preaching which is presupposed to interpret principles of practical usage of religious postulates and rules.

The article which is based on the research of English newspaper texts gives an insight into the characteristics of the analytical article. Due to insufficient studies of the English analytical articles this research direction is still an academic challenge. In the paper the analytical article is defined as a text based on an analytical approach which aims at presenting a comprehensive outlook on significant socio-political issues with a focus on cause-effect relation between different informational blocks.

The article deals with the newspaper genres, used for literary materials in the newspaper “Saratovsky Vestnik” (Saratov Herald) in 1910–1913. This is the time when Saratov’s newspaper culture is taking shape: the structure of the newspaper page, its layout and arrangement of materials, the link between the visual range and the genre palette. The Vestnik features the genres of newspaper advertisement, as well as chronicledocumentary articles.